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Asbestos, a natural fire retardant, was in high demand. but in wittenoom, people were unaware that raw asbestos could be lethal. thousands died, and the town is now almost completely abandoned. bronwen duke grew up there. people were warned, but they didnt take it seriously until people started to die. i lost both parents, both grandparents, my brother, three uncles, about four cousins that i can think of — and thats just the immediate family in my world. i was born in 1958 in the far north of...

Asbestos is a naturalfibre that is encased in rocks. they would extract the asbestos out of the mine, and the mill would actually then bag it and ready for shipment, and it was sent to all places around the world for the various things that they use asbestos for. news reel: fire-resisting, sound—insulating product known as asbestos is a piece of rock. the practical uses of asbestos are very numerous. at least 18,000 articles are made of it, ranging from packing for steam engines and linings fo...

Both grandparents, my brother, three uncles, about four cousins that i can think of — and thats just the immediate family in my world. i was born in 1958 in the far north of western australia in the pilbara, in a little town called wittenoom. the blue asbestos mine was the genesis of the town. asbestos is a naturalfibre that is encased in rocks. they would extract the asbestos out of the mine, and the mill would actually then bag it and ready for shipment, and it was sent to all places around ...

So its not going to look like a person, but i have never looked at him before, not when he was in the centre, not ever. i always walked past and always turned my head away, and, yeah, its quite disturbing to look at him. feels strange. i dont know how to put it into words. all these scratches all over him and graffiti. i feel like you can really see the violence of him now in a way that you dont really see it before. there are now plans to turn it into a museum exhibit, which feels like the righ...

Going to be standing up, and to see him like that... it is quite nice to be standing over him. obviously it is just a statue, so its not going to look like a person, but i have never looked at him before, not when he was in the centre, not ever. i always walked past and always turned my head away, and, yeah, its quite disturbing to look at him. feels strange. i dont know how to put it into words. all these scratches all over him and graffiti. i feel like you can really see the violence of him no...

The evidence points beyond a reasonable doubt to the man, the killer, who is looking at us >> reporter: now, the defense was ready to pounce. two attorneys, both of them former prosecutors, were about to try to rip the states case to shreds. and they would be asking the jury to consider this simple question -- who ate the kes diaw? coming up -- the defense, brought to you by taco bell. bobs attorneys say a fast food wrapper at the scene calls into question the prosecution timeline. >> if she a...

And in part we arejust running really scared. we are looking over a cliff that we cannot see the bottom of. and the uncertainty surrounding job losses, the economy, isolation and fear of getting the virus all lead to stress. when it is a stress that is ongoing, you are constantly aroused, your autonomic nervous system is going with the fight or flight syndrome but there is no flight. you end up with your blood pressure higher than normal. it is much more difficult to process, cognitively even, a...

—— funnily. i think he was a very good figurehead, but he was no good at organising it himself. i think his wife was rather better than him! she was sweet. i say it now, i rather enjoyed the war because of that. in that i had an interesting job, i knew exactly what was going on. and it was terribly exciting for me when he got rather better. some distant memories coming out there. this is a fossil that probably belong to a giant sea reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs.

The bbc‘s angelica casas takes a look inside our heads. we a look inside our heads. are processing this in fits and we are processing this in fits and starts, i would say. in pa rt and starts, i would say. in part we are processing things very well and we are adapting and people are coming up with all sorts of creative solutions to the many challenges of daily life and in part we are just running really scared. were looking over a cliff that we cannot see the bottom of. and the uncertainty sur...

And we are adapting and people are coming up with all sorts of creative solutions to the many challenges of daily life and, in part, we arejust running really scared. were looking over a cliff that we cannot see the bottom of it. and the uncertainty surrounding job losses, the economy, isolation and fear of getting the virus all lead to stress. when its a stress thats ongoing, you are constantly aroused. your nervous system is going with the fight—or—flight syndrome, but there is no flight. ...