Japan: The nuclear emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi plant has worsened, with no definitive plan to control the situation.
JAPAN's famed spirit of scientific innovation and improvisation is being tested beyond known standards by the radiation crisis spawned by the March 11 temblor and tsunami.
The threat of a nuclear accident adds to Japan's misery after tsunami waves set off by a giant earthquake take their toll.
A TRULY three-dimensional natural disaster, partly traceable to man's imperfect mastery over the atomic world, struck high-tech Japan on March 11, tragically exposing the limitations of human civilisation itself.
The three dimensions were those of a horrific offshore earth
Precisely when many in the developed bloc were frantically counting their money at the height of a surreal shock over subprime rate, the globalising world was jolted by a potential crisis of subsistence that would hit the poor and other vulnerable sections very hard. Is there a link, therefore, between the slippery subprime banking rate and the soaring prices of rice and other staples?
