Obama More Interested In Basketball Than World Crisis
Workers were ordered to withdraw briefly from a stricken Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday after radiation levels surged, a development that suggested the crisis was spiraling out of control. Panic over the economic impact of last Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami knocked $620 billion off Japan’s stock market over the first two days of this week. Confusion caused by a catastrophic earthquake and massive tsunami spread in Japan on Monday, with a quake-hit nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture suffering another hydrogen explosion and train services in the Kanto region surrounding Tokyo mostly paralyzed due to Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s announcement it was restricting power supply. The number of the dead or unaccounted for following the magnitude 9.0 quake came to about 5,900 after around 1,000 bodies were found Monday on several shores on the Oshika Peninsula in Miyagi Prefecture, while police and firefighters worked to recover another 200 to 300 bodies in Sendai, the capital of Miyagi.
