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Khidri Alwi, who coordinated the research in Makassar, said there was a major problem with air pollution in Makassar that could lead to child mortality.

He believed youngsters in Makassar were more aggressive because of the poisonous substance.

Similar lead-blood research is planned in other major cities - Surabaya, Palembang and Medan.

State Ministry for the Environment emissions evaluation head M.

Didin Khaerudin said the ministry supported a nationwide campaign against leaded gasoline.

Such findings should further push the government to intensify its campaign against leaded petrol, he said.

The government is currently designing a strategic plan to improve the air quality in 10 cities - Jakarta, Bandung, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, Batam, Medan, Denpasar, Lampung, and Palembang.

It was not clear if the plan will include a program to eliminate leaded gasoline.

Safrudin slammed state oil and gas company Pertamina for refusing to phase out leaded gasoline in Indonesia.

In 1996, former president Soeharto was determined to eliminate leaded gasoline by December 1999, but Pertamina used the economic crisis as an excuse to delay the schedule, Safrudin said.

In 2001, Pertamina agreed to phase out leaded gasoline in limited areas, including Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, B...

One woman had reached the age of 41 and discovered that time had run out; another had been through failed IVF treatments so often she was reaching the end of her rope.

These stories were told with great sensitivity.

The facts of a fertility lottery that had cost one couple £16,000, Britain's legal restrictions and the ethics of embryo manipulation – expect right-to-life violence as the series develops – were meanwhile laid before us with reasonable subtlety.

You were left wondering, nevertheless, if The Family Man will be able to maintain a balance between Eve's character, the riven hero, and the people whose lives depend on his science.

For the most part the dialogue was restrained, even terse.

You began to believe that Marchant had earned his pass mark.

Then he yielded to temptation and gave Stowe the one speech you should never hear in such a drama: "All I've ever wanted to do was to help couples, to make them happy.

But I can't play God." Playing God is the writer's job.

A Place in the Sun and No Going Back were both inflicted on France this week, and on much the same region, the glorious south-west.

In the former, Amanda Lamb was urging a Blackpool couple to realise their dreams of bliss by getting in on th...

"When you're young and have no financial resources or contacts in the competitive TV industry," Basedow says, "the odds are dramatically stacked against you.

To succeed you need a thick skin, an unwavering belief in yourself and your idea, along with a superhuman type of persistence." Spending long hours in the studio isn't the only ingredient to their success.

"We practice what we preach," says Paquita, who works out regularly and takes Toe Kwon Do classes three times a week.

"But I'm not as fanatical as John," she laughs.

Basedow's obsession with fitness and weight training is remarkable.

Although he was a competitive tennis player as a teen, he didn't embrace weight lifting until age 24.

His obsession started after learning of the staggering health benefits of fitness.

Yet there was another reason.

John began pumping up, he says, "so I could achieve the look I see in EMO." His initial efforts, however, did not deliver the quick results he anticipated.

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