>>Sergei Gaschak’s photography from inside 'the zone'
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>>Images from hidden camera reveal how wildlife is thriving in zone closed off to humans for 26 years
>>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/life-after-chernobyl-sergei-gaschaks-photography-from-inside-the-zone-8467725.html
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>>Life finds a way - Dr. Ian Malcolm ;)
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>I worked with a programmer from that area and her family and friends had to move. She, several friends and neighbors have had cancer. It is difficult to communicate with wild animals to let them know that the area may be dangerous. They may migrate from areas far from Chernobyl.
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>Would you like to live there?

Attempting to inject humor again, when my daughters were young I took them to the neighborhood park on almost a daily basis. My wife and I quickly learned not to even say the word "park" unless you were prepared to go there immediately, and when spelled out P-A-R-K it became one of the first words Allie knew how to spell. You were at that point committed; she ran to get her coat. One of her good friends was a girl her age from Siberia named Yulia. Yulia's mother was a very good looking woman, in contradiction of the popular image of Soviet women. There were a lot of them in West Rogers Park and they were all good looking. You wondered about the process whereby she was granted her exit papers. No father was ever mentioned. Anyway, she liked to go on and on about the paradise of Siberia. One of her pet peeves was how lousy American fruit was compared to the fruit in Siberia. The apricots were this big, she said, holding her hands as though holding a baseball. I asked was this before or after Chernobyl?