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...last June that perhaps 350 soldiers from the Army's 37th Engineer Battalion could have been exposed to traces of chemical weapons when they blew up ammunition at the Kamisiyah weapons depot in southern Iraq on March 4, 1991. It was one day after Iraq's surrender, ending the Gulf War, and the unit was destroying Bunker 73, which contained rockets brimming with the virulent gas sarin. Three weeks ago, a presidential commission tripled--to 1,100--its estimate of the number of G.I.s exposed to the poison during that incident. Then last Wednesday the Pentagon said it was alerting...
Many vets believe chemical exposure is contributing to the debilitating collection of ills known as Gulf War syndrome, which includes chronic fatigue, joint ailments, rashes and memory loss. But the Pentagon says it has no proof of a link and adds that there is no sickness pattern among those who were at Kamisiyah. Critics argue that the lack of a pattern is not conclusive. Some researchers suggest that chemical agents may cause illness through a specific sequence of events that can affect everyone differently. They fear that a combination of nerve-gas exposure, prewar vaccinations against such toxins and environmental...
...Pentagon is asking Gulf War vets who were near Kamisiyah in March 1991 to register for a health exam by calling 1-800-796-9699 or 1-800-749-8387. "There are charges we have not listened to in the past," Pentagon spokesman Ken Bacon concedes. "We are trying to listen now." Even more people may be listening soon. The Pentagon announced that the 5,000 notifications--due in the mail as early as this week--may not be the last. It seems that some of the 24,000 troops in the Army's 24th Infantry Division were...
Across the globe, from the Gulf of Mexico to the South China Sea, people are killing coral reefs. Cyanide fishing, harbor dredging, coral mining, deforestation, coastal development, agricultural runoff, shipwrecks and careless divers are putting so much pressure on these extraordinary ecosystems that they may not survive beyond the next century. "You can never point to one thing and say it's this that's killing the reefs," Wilkinson observes, "because in reality it's almost everything...
...treated like a second-class passenger. Her crewmates occasionally left Mir to conduct maintenance outside. When they did, they placed red tape over the communications panel, a blunt sign to their guest that she was not to fool with a system they assumed she did not understand. The cultural gulf threatened to get even wider when a ranking officer in the Russian space program suggested that the space station should be tidier with Lucid aboard because "we know women love to clean." Lucid tried to defuse the incident in a Mir-to-ground press conference. "We all work together...