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Last week, under pressure from Congress, the Department of Veterans Affairs conceded that exposure to mustard gas could indeed cause bronchial and lung disorders as well as chronic conjunctivitis and corneal opacities. Officials encouraged veterans involved in the experiments who suffer from such illnesses to contact the nearest regional office, after which the V.A. will belatedly do the right thing by offering them compensatory payments of up to $1,620 a month...
...justifies armed robbery, manslaughter and chronic drunken driving as exercises in consciousness raising," charges New York Daily News columnist Richard Johnson, who also finds it "degrading to men, with pathetic stereotypes of testosterone-crazed behavior" and half-seriously proposes...
Done. If all goes well, if rejection does not occur or a major infection set in, the marrow will do the grail's work. It will give life to the older sister, who otherwise would have died of chronic myelogenous leukemia. Doctors rate the chance of success...
...sane environmentalism does not sentimentalize the earth. It does not ask people to sacrifice in the name of other creatures. After all, it is hard enough to ask people to sacrifice in the name of other humans. (Think of the chronic public resistance to foreign aid and welfare.) Ask hardworking voters to sacrifice in the name of the snail darter, and, if they are feeling polite, $ they will give you a shrug...
...logistics expert for the French volunteer medical team Medecins sans Frontieres: "It takes the U.N. a month and sometimes longer to organize rescue operations." Adds Serge Telle, a technical adviser to France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs, Bernard Kouchner: "The U.N. relief agencies are plagued with chronic financial difficulties because of the West's indifference. On the one hand, we say everything has to go through the U.N.; on the other, we settle everything at the bilateral level...