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...strengthen tropical storms, we need only look north to find alarming signs of warming trends. Many studies document melting polar ice caps, thinning permafrost and rising sea and air temperatures in the Arctic, which threaten the livelihood of people native to the region. Like so many helpless Gulf Coast residents, these people will suffer because of a profound denial of responsibility. Climate change is a global problem that needs a global solution. David G. Wright Sturbridge, Massachusetts, U.S. There are solutions that can reduce global-warming pollution and preserve a healthy climate for our kids. We must invest in innovative...
...Instead of letting ailments like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Gulf War Syndrome slowly bubble up at Department of Veterans' Affairs hospitals, the Army is screening soldiers before and after they serve in combat, and then a follow-up returning screening several months after they come home. They are finding that more than one in four-28 percent-are limping home with psychological or physical woes, ranging from unhealed war wounds to thoughts of suicide. Those roughly 150,000 vets eclipse the official war tally of 1,971 killed and 15,220 wounded through Tuesday...
...comprehensive survey of deployed troops began in 1997, following the lack of good data on soldiers' well-being in the first Gulf War. Thousands of soldiers in the 1990-91 conflict complained of a wide range of physical and mental ailments that came to be called Gulf War Syndrome, and for which a definitive cause has never been found. A government panel concluded a year ago that roughly one in seven veterans of the first Gulf War suffered war-related medical problems, about half the total reporting such problems in the current conflict...
...William Winkenwerder Jr., assistant defense secretary for health affairs, has said the Pentagon has taken steps to prevent a recurrence of Gulf War Syndrome. Many experts believes its myriad of symptoms- pain, fatigue, diarrhea and cognitive impairment, among others-is linked to the toxic chemical soup, including Saddam Hussein's stockpiles of nerve agents destroyed by U.S. forces, that contaminated the battlefield in the 1990-91 conflict. "We've done quite a lot more to set up preventive health systems-monitoring of soil, water, air and just ongoing monitoring of the environment to ensure as best we can that people...
...expect a return to 1970s-style inflation. As long-term interest rates rise, it should cool the economy's bubble-spot, real estate, which will cause consumers to rein in their spending and prevent companies from raising prices too much. Meanwhile, as gas and oil production recover from the Gulf Coast hurricanes, fuel prices should stabilize or even fall...