Dark days for Estrada
WHEN a power cut blacked out half of the Philippines on the night of December 10th, the immediate question that sprang to many minds was whether a military coup was under way. It was not. The authorities blamed the blackout on a huge invasion of jellyfish—enough, it turned out, to fill some 50 lorries—which were sucked into the seawater cooling system of a power station, causing the entire electricity grid of the northern Philippines to shut down.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Dark days for Estrada”
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