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	Zone of alienation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The zone was established soon after the Chernobyl accident in 1986, in order to evacuate the local population and to prevent people from entering heavily contaminated territory.
		It is controlled by the Administration of the Alienation Zone within Ukraine's Ministry of Emergencies and Affairs of Population Protection from Consequences of Chornobyl' Catastrophe.
		Historically and geographically, the zone is a heartland of the Polesia region—the birthplace of East Slavs.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zone_of_alienation (839 words)

	Zone of alienation - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The territory of the zone is policed by special units of the miltsiya and (along the border line) the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
		Historically and geographically, the zone is a heartland of the Polissya region—the birthplace of East Slavs.
		Zone of alienation, Status, History, Nature and infrastructure, The people, Cultural precedents, External links, Chernobyl accident and Subdivisions of Ukraine.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Zone_of_alienation (855 words)

	Encyclopedia: Zone of alienation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Zone may refer to: Zoning, in urban planning DVD region code DNS zone, a portion of the namespace in the Domain Name System Zone diet, a diet that involves precise proportions by weight of protein, fat and carbohydrate Erogenous zone, an area on the body which is sexually stimulating Zone...
		It was the alienation of man as a citizen in his relationship with the state that became the starting point of Marx’s philosophical, political and social thought.
		Such alienation is not the result of the projection of things out of our body as such, which first live in us as ideas and then take on a material existence as objects, as products of our labour.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Zone-of-alienation (356 words)

	The Zone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The Zone has gone through many hosts, but the general amount is 2 hosts, and 1 leaves at a time (although not always at the same time as someone else joins, both Pat and Sugar have hosted The Zone by themselves).
		At first The Zone was hosted by Phil Guerrero (who by this time had dropped the "Fresh") and Snit, a stylized television which displayed a pair of teeth.
		The move was seen as questionable by many fans, as the "Keep it Weird" slogan did not seem to fare well to the audience (but by being the only Canadian TV station that caters to their target demographic, viewers had little choice but to embrace and accept it).
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/The_Zone (893 words)

	Guardian Century \| 1990-1999 \| Inside the forbidden forests
		Welcome to tumuli that shroud a billion cubic metres of soil, buildings, trees, road surfacing, all of which had to be buried in the zone.
		The former Soviet Union established a 30km zone around the reactor, and within that zone fenced off a second, 10km zone around the nuclear power plant.
		But 24,000 years from now - if the zone's keepers are right, and the stuff is safely interred, and hasn't leaked into the River Dneiper - half of the plutonium 239 buried in it will still be there.
	century.guardian.co.uk /1990-1999/Story/0,6051,112665,00.html (1088 words)

	Academic Zoning. Counseling. Student Development. Kalamazoo College.
		Athletes are "in the zone" when they feel focused, energized, confident, and capable of maximal performance in a seemingly effortless manner.
		Athletic "zoning" requires the development of athletic skills to the point that they are almost second-nature which, in turn, requires a strong motivation to succeed.
		When you are in the "Drone Zone", you deny or minimize the work you need to do, which leaves you with too little concern about academics and unmotivated to do what you need to do to succeed academically.
	www.kzoo.edu /counsel/academic_zoning.htm (867 words)

	Articles - Chernobyl accident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the first year after the accident, the number of cleanup workers in the zone was estimated to be 211,000, and these workers received an estimated average dose of 165 millisieverts (16.5 rem).
		Some children in the contaminated areas were exposed to high radiation doses of up to 50 grays (Gy) because of an intake of radioactive iodine-131 (a relatively short-lived isotope with a half-life of 8 days) from contaminated milk produced locally.
		According to reports from Soviet scientists at the First International Conference on the Biological and Radiological Aspects of the Chernobyl Accident (September 1990), fallout levels in the 10 km zone around the plant were as high as 4.81 GBq/mÂ².
	www.divxa.com /articles/Chernobyl_accident (5865 words)

	Viridian Note 00403: Przwalski Chernobyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Among the wilder developments in this Rhode Island-sized Chernobyl "zone of alienation" was the deliberate release of primordial "Przewalski horses." These ancient horses are now running wild across the radioactive wasteland.
		But the aftermath of the accident has created a misleading stereotype of the zone as a toxic wasteland, a nuclear desert devoid of life, and certainly not a place a sane person would want to visit.
		About a quarter of the cesium and strontium have already decayed, and 95% of the remaining radioactive molecules are no longer in fallout that can get on or inside a visitor, but have sunk to a depth of about five inches in the soil.
	www.viridiandesign.org /notes/401-450/00403_przwalski_chernobyl.html (1198 words)

	News Extra - Chernobyl: No People But A Thriving Ecosystem
		The prognosis for Chernobyl and its environs — succinctly dubbed by the Soviets as the "Zone of Alienation" — was grim.
		All I could picture was a dead zone, like a giant parking lot paved with asphalt or a barren desert of dust and ash where nothing could grow and nothing living could survive without protective gear.
		The book is as much about the resilience and tenacity of a woman eager to get at the truth of something close to her heart, as it is about the resilience of nature itself in the face of what we assume to be insurmountable odds.
	www.scienceagogo.com /news/chernobyl_environment.shtml (1634 words)

	Encyclopedia: Ghost town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The town of Kalapana, Hawaii was turned into a ghost town by a lava flow in 1990.
		The city of Prypyat and dozens of smaller settlements in northern Ukraine were abandoned after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and turned into a closed alienation zone.
		A buffer zone is any area that serves the purpose of keeping two or more other areas distant from one another, for whatever reason.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ghost-town (3193 words)

	Chernobyl: Basic Facts - NIRS
		There is roughly a 36 mile diameter "dead zone" surrounding the reactors from which over 160,000 people were evacuated, permanently abandoning over 600 years of continuous habitation and culture around the towns of Chernobyl and Pripyat.
		Numerous "hot spots" of radioactive contamination persist far beyond a "zone of alienation;" many areas continue to emit radioactivity at levels ranging from 40 to 100 curies/kilometer2.
		The relocation of hundreds of thousands of people from additional contaminated zones has ground to a halt for economic reasons, as has radiation monitoring of farming produce in the zones.
	www.nirs.org /cherfact.htm (992 words)

	[Anyone] Chernobyl Motorcycle Fake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Though it was full of factual errors, I did find the notion of lone young woman riding her motorcycle through the evacuated Zone of Alienation to be intriguing and asked about it when I visited there two days ago.
		She did not travel around the zone by herself on a motorcycle.
		Motorcycles are banned in the zone, as is wandering around alone, without an escort from the zone administration.
	lists.laplaza.org /pipermail/anyone/2004-May/004146.html (392 words)

	Neb.'s Cooper nuke faces possible early shutdown (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Back in the town of Chernobyl, where the zone's administration manages the Rhode Island-sized no man's land around the destroyed reactor, one official said economic benefits of tourism will never be more than minor.
		It now is home to 270 bird species, 31 of them endangered--making the zone one of the few places in Europe to spot rarities such as fl storks and booted eagles.
		About a quarter of the cesium and strontium have already decayed, and 95% of the remaining radioactive molecules are no longer in fallout that can get on or inside a visitor, but have sunk to a depth of about 5 inches in the soil.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /radsafe/0205/msg00236.html (2578 words)

	Electronic Magazine "Social Work in Ukraine and Abroad"
		Practically the organism of healthy people, after the work in zone of alienation, develops the violations of functional liver state.
		Depending on the character of work in the zone of alienation, certain peculiarities in unequal accumulation of different radionuclides were found.
		A speed-up radio nuclede excreting is conditioned with the result of general detoxicational action of enterosorbent, and not only with processes of their straight interconnecting in the gastric-intestinal alimentary canal.
	www.quarterly.uz.ua /1/6_E.htm (251 words)

	internet culture
		First, there is the idea that we are newly aware of a rich continuum of states between the real and the virtual, the animate and the inanimate, the unitary and the multiple self.
		To the degree that MUDding is important to her, for instance, to that degree it is constitutive of who she is. This is a high-technology application of the general principle that we are self-defining creatures.
		He explained that the notion of alienation presumes a centralized, unitary self who could become lost to himself or herself.
	www.brandeis.edu /pubs/jove/HTML/V6/iculture.html (8643 words)

	Nat'l Academies Press: Wormwood Forest: A Natural History of Chernobyl
		The prognosis for Chernobyl and its environs--succinctly dubbed the Zone of Alienation--was grim.
		As she tours the Zone to report on the disaster s long-term effects on its human, faunal, and floral inhabitants, she meets pockets of defiant local residents who have remained behind to survive and make a life in the Zone.
		And she is shocked to discover that the area surrounding Chernobyl has become Europe s largest wildlife sanctuary, a flourishing--at times unearthly--wilderness teeming with large animals and a variety of birds, many of them members of rare and endangered species.
	www.nap.edu /catalog/11318.html (536 words)

	Zionism And Its Impact By Ann M. Lesch
		Once Britain withdrew its forces in 1948 and the Jews proclaimed the state of Israel, the Arab rulers used their armed forces to protect those zones that the partition plans had ALLOCATED to the Arab state [click here for a map illustration].
		The dispossession and expulsion of a majority of Palestinians were the result of Zionist policies planned over a thirty-year period.
		Weizmann's policy was basically in accord with that of the leaders of the yishuv, who held a conference in December 1918 in which they formulated their own demands for the peace conference.
	www.palestineremembered.com /Acre/Palestine-Remembered/Story452.html (6260 words)

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		The corollary of the expansion of the British zone was the alienation of Maori land.
		While the autonomous Maori zone began to disappear in the late 1860s and was obviously greatly affected by the final loss of the wars, Maori autonomy persisted in places for years.
		It is not perhaps until the early decades of the twentieth century that the autonomous Maori zone ceased to exist altogether, a century after the arrival of the European settlers with their overwhelming advantage in economic and technological resources.
	www.cwru.edu /affil/GAIR/papers/96papers/Constructs/gunn/Gunn.htm (16510 words)

	discord. Zone 3: Everyday Life
		In this zone, disconcerting views of an alienating everyday existence will be shown.
		Patterns of identity, loss of identity and the eternal fight for identity will be touched upon here.
		Guthry's promise that American continent is everybody's property communicates itself to the private area where narrowness and limitation are widened to become public property.
	www.v2.nl /~arns/Archiv/Discord/z3.html (370 words)

	=Chernobyl Was No Accident...2=
		Almost all are in two different places named Chornobyl: the nuclear station, where two controversial reactors Kiev promises to close are still running, and the town 12 miles away, where the administration of the Zone of Alienation performs its dystopian task of running the no-man's land.
		Because cesium and strontium have long since passed from the soil into the food chain, both the prey and the predators are radioactive.
		And if a cesium-packed roebuck bounds out of the Zone into a neighboring forest and dies, its body will leave a patch of contamination where there had been none before.
	www.iahushua.com /WOI/wormwood2.htm (3870 words)

	[cdn-nucl-l] A motorcycle ride thru Chernobyl area is a fabrication
		The rest of the team is comprised of microbiologists, doctors, botanists and other professions with long names and many syllables.
		Granny lives 800 kms from here and dad wasn't sure if it was far enough away to keep us out of reach of the big bad wolf of a nuclear meltdown.
		Special permission is required to enter the zone of exclusion.
	mailman.mcmaster.ca /mailman/private/cdn-nucl-l/0405/msg00044.html (680 words)

	Zone of alienation
		The Russian usage of the term "The Zone" bears a number of associations with a Soviet science fiction novel Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky brothers more than a decade before the accident.
		A motorcycle trip inside the death zone - November 2004
		CCN article about making a zombie movie in the Zone
	www.keywordmage.net /zo/zone-of-alienation.html (142 words)

	Guardian \| Is this the end of the dream?
		Cobalt 60 has a half life of five years: that is, after five years, only half the radiation hazard remains.
		Seventeen years on, a 9,000 sq km zone - the Ukrainians call it a "zone of alienation" - is still patrolled by soldiery and the Chernobyl reactor is encased in a huge cement coffin.
		But any accidents were liable to be calamitous, nobody knew what to do about the epic quantities of nuclear waste so far generated, and even when they came to a peaceful end, reactors had to be turned into little zones of alienation, to be protected for a century or more.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4639324-111414,00.html (1799 words)

	Reviews - Discover Magazine - science news articles online technology magazine articles Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At the center of the zone is the Shelter Object—a giant concrete-and-steel "sarcophagus" that encases the damaged reactors and close to 200 tons of uranium.
		The only humans living in the zone are 300 samosels (self-settlers), who remain there despite a ban by the Ukrainian government.
		Although Mycio's account suffers from a shortage of hard science about the effects of radiation on these people, her finely detailed first-person investigation of the ecology of the world's most famous disaster area has a haunting grandeur that should appeal to naturalists and fans of the apocalypse alike.
	www.discover.com /issues/dec-05/departments/reviews (3066 words)

	Re: Chernobyl Sheila faked her story..... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Though it was full of factual errors, I > did find the notion of lone young woman riding her motorcycle through the > evacuated Zone of Alienation to be intriguing and asked about it when I visited > there two days ago.
		Motorcycles are banned in the zone, > as is wandering around alone, without an escort from the zone administration.
		When the Web site appeared, Zone Administration personnel were > in an uproar over who approved a motorcycle trip in the zone.
	www.talkaboutmotorcycles.com /group/aus.motorcycles/messages/468200.html (602 words)

	The Null Device: comments on "Dead cities"
		The photographs of new buildings, overgrown with long grass and young trees, are eerie.
		And the most recent Viridian note is about the Chernobyl "zone of alienation" involuntary park, a growing destination for extreme tourists, with its silences, fresh air and abundance of rare (and radioactive) wildlife:
		From there, they have insinuated themselves into the food chain, making the zone's diverse and abundant flora and fauna radioactive indeed.
	dev.null.org /cgi-bin/cmt.cgi?it=200403091631_pripyat&mc=d868d91e1f (386 words)

	JRL #6237 - Nuclear Tests, Walsh/ Oil & Georgia, Bombing, Wither NATO?, Russians in Israel, WWII Vets, Chernobyl ...
		The Khankala base is the command center for the Unified Group of the Russian Federation Armed Forces of the Northern Caucasus which oversees the activities of the Russian army, the Russian Security Services (FSB) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) troops.
		It is also where the Unified Group has its Press Center and its daily press releases serve as the basis of all information from the conflict zone.
		Having resolved their assigned tasks in the conflict zone, the Russian authorities and the FSB are starting to bring under their control those regions which neighbor Chechnya, first of all Ingushetia, which shelters over 150,000 Chechen refugees.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6237.htm (10308 words)

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