Today is the 70th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's death and around here they celebrate the "Student's day of non-violence and peace" and the 20th anniversary of the UNICEF Convention on the Rights of the Child. In Germany they remember Hitler's rise to power in 1933...
Finally, I got to read Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy (I am still at vol. 3). It is quite good, though it has its faults: the main characters are too good to be true and the heroine has got illimitated financial means. And the histories are not for those with weak nerves. But it is one of the few series that kept me awake reading until 2:30 a.m.
As to nuclear waste, a village about 50km away from here that already has two nuclear reactors (Ascó) wants to host a nuclear waste storage center for all of Spain. Not a very appealing perspective, having trucks and trains loaded with nuclear waste coming to the region. The central government will have to decide in five month or so where to build this storage place - and there are seven other villages that want to have it, because there comes a lot of money attached to the project...
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