This is an incredibly insightful and disturbing article from the current issue of The New Yorker. Worth a read (though a little short on who is taking action to get this changed and how to help):
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/03/30/090330fa_fact_gawande
Important article in the Times this morning about the ongoing effects of the industrial disaster in Bhopal, India:
Hundreds of tons of waste still languish inside a tin-roofed warehouse in a corner of the old grounds of the Union Carbide pesticide factory here, nearly a quarter-century after a poison gas leak killed thousands and turned this ancient city into a notorious symbol of industrial disaster.
Friends of Batten have visited and worked there — and, as the article points out, they still need help. Post-Bryn Mawr relief-work stories, anyone?
