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  • Workers inspect the structure inside the 5.3-mile Enasan Tunnel on the Chuo Expressway in Achimura, Nagano Prefecture, in central Japan, on Monday. Concrete ceiling panels fell onto moving vehicles deep inside another tunnel on the same expressway Sunday. Nine people died. (Associated Press)

    Japan faces costly infrastructure repairs

    The deadly collapse of hundreds of concrete ceiling slabs in a tunnel outside Tokyo is raising calls for more spending on Japan's aging infrastructure, but the country simply might not have the money.


  • Sturgeon's death highlights threat to ancient fish

    Alas, poor Harald. Wired up to a satellite transmitter, he had much to teach science about the life of the great sturgeons of the Danube River and Black Sea.


  • Passengers escape burning jet in Japan

    NAHA, Japan (AP) — Passengers used emergency slides to evacuate a China Airlines jet just minutes before the plane burst into a fireball today on the tarmac. All 165 people aboard escaped unhurt, including the pilot, who jumped from the cockpit at the last second.


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