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I live here http://www.cnsantandreu.com/pdi-medical-meaning-0825.pdf#widen pdi medical meaning The International Maritime Organization once published a brochure about shipping, entitled 'A Safe and Friendly Business’. Shipping has certainly become safer, but not always friendlier. In this safe and friendly business, 544 seafarers are being held hostage by Somali pirates. I try to translate that into other transport industries: 544 bus drivers, or 544 cab drivers, or nearly two jumbo jets of passengers, mutilated and tortured for years for doing their job. When 33 Chilean miners were trapped underground for 69 days in 2010, there was a media frenzy; 1,500 journalists went to Chile, and even now the BBC news website dedicates a special page to their drama, long after its conclusion. The 24 men on MV Iceberg held captive for 1,000 days were given no special page and nothing much more than silence and disregard.
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