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LadyHawkAZ Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:28 AM
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Ministry of Truth: 66 y/o woman was 5 in 1945
A Japanese woman who got radiation poisoning in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945 says she isn't scared by reports of a meltdown at a crippled nuclear plant.

Kazuko Yamashita, 66, was just 5 years old when the A-Bomb dropped by the U.S. military demolished her home and everything around it.

She developed diabetes, thyroid problems and osteoporosis, but isn't panicked about the radiation leaks from the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant.

"I may be a bit too callous about this due to the fact that I was really heavily exposed to radiation, but I don't think this is anything to turn pale over," she told Reuters.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/03/17/2011-03-17_nagasaki_survivor_says_reports_of_nuclear_disaster_are_overblown_we_went_through.html#ixzz1GvxTCwXD


Alrighty then! Who makes this stuff up, and why can't they afford a calculator?
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:31 AM
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1. Wow, now that's a perspective, I guess...
And, yes, fact checking seems to have gone the way of..... investigative reporters, editors, and unbiased media.
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inademv Donating Member (738 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:34 AM
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2. nvm
Edited on Fri Mar-18-11 03:01 AM by inademv
i need sleep
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UrbScotty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:37 AM
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4. She would be 70 or 71 today (nt)
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Alamuti Lotus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:38 AM
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5. No, she would be 71 if born in 1940 (5yrs before a-bomb); if she was *born* in 1945, she'd be 66
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LadyHawkAZ Donating Member (800 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:39 AM
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6. If she was 5 in 1945, she'd have been born in 1940, correct?
and would be 70/71.
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Tunkamerica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:35 AM
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3. ok nm
Edited on Fri Mar-18-11 02:51 AM by Tunkamerica
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Liquorice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:47 AM
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7. Yes that's pretty sloppy reporting. They must have gotten confused by the original
Reuters story, which said:

"Kazuko Yamashita was five when the atom bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, destroying her home in a second and leaving her with a lifelong fear that every time she becomes ill, this time it is finally cancer.

Now, 66 years later, she wears a dark pink sweater, her dyed hair in a neat bob, and waits out Japan's current nuclear crisis..."

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFL3E7EI0EM20110318
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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 03:00 AM
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10. Thanks for figuring that out and posting a link.
Edited on Fri Mar-18-11 03:00 AM by joshcryer
Makes a lot of sense.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:54 AM
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8. The radiation made her five years younger. Duh.
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 02:57 AM
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9. Math skilz don't seem to be a strong point at the DailyNews - see this story about the potential for
a bad quake in NYC:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/03/17/2011-03-17_could_an_earthquake_hit_new_york_city_history_says_yes_but_probably_not_like_jap.html

"A 5.2-magnitude quake shook New York City in 1737 and another of the same severity hit in 1884" ""Will there be one in my lifetime or your lifetime? I don't know. But this is the longest period we've gone without one."


Uhh, Hellooo - the last two were 154 years apart, and now it's only been 127 years since the most recent one!

Made me think of the old Tom Paxton song, "Daily News". Listen here for free: http://new.music.yahoo.com/tom-paxton/tracks/daily-news--37336190

Lyrics http://www.elyrics.net/read/t/tom-paxton-lyrics/daily-news-lyrics.html
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Jane Austin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 03:02 AM
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11. Um, I'm 66, and I was an infant
when WWII ended.

The story must be mis-translated.
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Sherman A1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 03:17 AM
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12. While it may just be part of a great conspiracy
It could also be a typo......
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 05:44 AM
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13. Her age makes sense to me.
I was born in 1945 and I have been 49 for years and years.
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 11:04 AM
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15. Heh - I know someone who, when she turned 39, joked about turning "39 for the first time"!
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fasttense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 05:45 AM
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14. It's the daily news, you can't expect perfume from manure. n/t
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 11:07 AM
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16. Yep - Tom Paxton's song "Daily News" sez "Seven little pennies in the newsboy's hand, And you ride
Edited on Fri Mar-18-11 11:21 AM by kath
right along to never-never land."
See link to song and lyrics in my post above.
(song was obviously written a looooong time ago - early 60s, IIRC)
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 11:11 AM
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17. didn't some man in Japan in his 90's after surviving BOTH bombs?
Edited on Fri Mar-18-11 11:12 AM by hobbit709
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7963581.stm
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 11:14 AM
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18. 71 she is
I know Japanese lady who's 72. She remembers bombers flying overhead in the last days of the war and didn't see a westerner until she was in her 20s. Now she's an American.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 11:17 AM
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19. Typical sloppy reporting from the NY Daily News
They screw facts up all the time like this.

The bombing was 66-years ago.

She was 5-years old at the time.

Which would make her 71 now, or going on 71 since the bombing took place in August.
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-18-11 11:19 AM
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20. I was born in Nov 1940 and I am 70
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