Word: armoring
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...least 17 soldiers (15 of them from leukemia) from European armies since being deployed on peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Kosovo has raised an outcry in Europe, and some of their governments believe the cause of their illnesses may lie in the ammunition used by NATO against Serbian armor and artillery positions in both regions. Not so, say the U.S., Britain and NATO headquarters, citing extensive scientific research by the World Health Organization, among others, to support their assertion that there's no link between depleted-uranium ammunition and the illnesses that killed the European peacekeepers. Still, the U.S. issued...
...during the Gulf War that Western armies first began firing uranium-tipped weapons, which are prized for their armor-piercing abilities. Since then, a number of veterans suffering unexplained symptoms have suggested there may be a link between their illnesses and the use of depleted-uranium ordnance. Depleted uranium is not radioactive, and speculation over its potential health effects focus on its toxicity as a heavy metal. It is precisely its weight - 1.7 times that of lead - that allows depleted-uranium shells to pass through all sorts of armored surfaces that might stop steel, brass or copper, and makes...
...impact of depleted uranium may press the Pentagon to mount further studies in the coming years. But until they?ve proved a connection between illness and the ordinance, it's a safe bet that when an A-10 is being armed to go after some enemy?s armor, it'll be carrying depleted-uranium rounds...
Daye disagrees. "There were 6,000 guys at Folsom prison," he says, "and I was the only one from Iowa." He learned to make a knife out of a sardine can and sew a steel tray into his coat as body armor. "They put my life in far more peril than I was ever in on the street." Daye, who makes $7 an hour as a cook in Raleigh, N.C., still hopes that his lawsuit, now under appeal, will help set things right...
...said she still remembers her shock upon seeing the women who the night before had appeared "like they were in armor," now unrecognizable in their ordinary dress, looking undistinguishable from "schoolteachers...