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By Barbara Demick The first pitch of Japan’s baseball season has been pushed back so people don’t waste gasoline driving to games. When the season

By B. Blake Levitt and Chellis Glendinning Culture Change note: As if you weren’t getting enough radiation: now comes really bad news in the form

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By Mike Ludwig A coalition of farmers and environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on March 18 to challenge

Naoto Kan says the situation at disaster-hit power plant is unpredictable as officials fear breach at one reactor. Japan’s prime minister has warned the situation

By Laurent Belsie The earthquake that struck Burma Thursday night hit one of its more remote regions, once known as the world’s premier producer of

By Yuji Okada, Naoko Fujimura and Kaipin Yee March 27 (Bloomberg) — Radiation in water at Japan’s stricken nuclear plant reached potentially lethal levels even

By Shannon D. Harrington and Betty Liu Pacific Investment Management Co., manager of the world’s biggest bond fund, invested in the finance arm of Toyota

By Kadhim Ajrash and Nayla Razzouk Iraq plans next week to sign power- plant contracts valued at $6.25 billion with Caterpillar Inc. (CAT) and other