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Indonesia’s Big Muddy

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Aug 22, 2008
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More than two years on, the mud is still flowing in East Java.

It bubbles, hisses and creeps menacingly close to the top of the dam wall hastily built to contain the disaster zone. So far the mud has drowned 14,000 homes, 33 schools, 65 mosques, a major toll road and an orphanage and it keeps coming at the rate of more than 20 Olympic swimming pools ever…

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