Foster, editor of a small daily in Shenandoah, Pa. who becomes outraged when a coal miner friend dies with his crew, the result of fire-damp (carbon dioxide asphyxiation).

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Huddled in a damp fire-station a young man connects a laptop, a binocular-style iris scanner and a glowing green machine that records 30 points from a set of fingerprints.

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He has already had to damp down a fire started when an unidentified aide told the Daily Telegraph that they understood Britain better than the White House because of a shared "Anglo-Saxon" heritage.

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Afterwards Mr Cai and his assistants damp out the fire using long poles tipped with sponges, and then smudge the lines of ash so that the portrait looks like a huge charcoal drawing on the wall of the museum's reception hall.

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He said he ran towards the burning vehicle with a fire extinguisher but as he tried to damp down the area, an Asian man had approached and told him to stop.

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