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Taiwan’s killer mudslides

"It should be said that the population is too high, that not so many people should be living up there." --Chen Hung-yu, geosciences professor at National Taiwan University. ...full story at Countdown to Beijing

from Countdown to Beijing on Thu, Sep 17 2009

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