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Street View Creeps Through Post-Tsunami Japanese Ghost Town
2013-03-28 16:35:26| TechNewsWorld
Google Street View has had its share of intrepid adventures -- Antarctica, say, or Everest Base Camp. However, the Google Maps service has a sober side, too. Street View just unveiled startling images of Namie, a Japanese town firmly planted inside the evacuation zone described in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster.
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Fukushima town revealed in Google Street View two years after tsunami
2013-03-27 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Two years after Fukushima's triple nuclear meltdown forced tens of thousands of residents to flee, it is possible to take a virtual journey deep into the exclusion zone to one of the towns they left behind. Google Street View has published striking images of the devastation visited on Namie by the March 2011 tsunami and nuclear meltdown: abandoned homes, shops and restaurants, fields blanketed in grass and weeds. Google's camera-equipped vehicles began filming in Namie this month at the invitation...
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Crawley Town FC owners to sell club
2013-03-25 09:19:10| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Crawley Town FC is put up for sale after three years under the current owners.
VIDEO: Town braces for welfare shake-up
2013-03-25 09:05:14| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Graham Satchell reports from Wigan, one of of the towns where people are preparing for the government's benefit changes, including the single payment of universal credit.
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Secaucus to Jersey City: pay up! Town asks AG to investigate city's tax deal with Goya
2013-03-18 05:33:37| Food - Topix.net
Goya's September 2012 groundbreaking in Jersey City. At the time, Mayor Michael Gonnelli assumed the new facility would impact the Inter-Municipal Tax Sharing Plan and decrease the amount of money Secaucus taxpayers have to contribute to it.
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