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...young, cut the grass with a pair of scissors, while his brother slept on a hospital trolley bed, and the others all slept on the floor. His father got up at 7 a.m. and dressed for work even after he had been laid off by the local Vauxhall car plant. As for Saf, we meet him wearing pajamas under his trousers so he doesn't look so skinny, and planning a rock group called Yasser Arafat and the Ayatollahs of Love. The overwhelming impression is of a dark-skinned Woody Allen hoping to remake himself as a bruiser from...
...women in the hotel conference room had helped manufacture plutonium triggers for atomic weapons at the Rocky Flats weapons plant, and then allegedly fell victim to at least 22 different kinds of cancer in the process. As they listened to the June 12 proceedings, they heard that they had been denied an opportunity for speedy compensation for their illnesses and medical bills...
...former Rocky Flats workers had hoped that the board would approve Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) for all workers at the plant, meaning expedited access to compensation. Instead, the government panel approved that status only for workers employed at Rocky Flats from Jan. 1, 1959 to Dec. 31, 1966, saying there simply weren't enough good records available for determining each worker's level of exposure to radiation on the job (earlier, pre-1959 employees were also granted SEC status). The panel said that all cases of employee illness following 1966 will be reviewed individually, a tedious process in which, some...
...board addresses energy worker issues around the country - from the Savannah River nuclear weapons plant to the workers who handled plutonium at a weapons plant in Paducah, Kentucky - without, its chairman told TIME, any pressure at all to consider impact upon the federal treasury. "I don't think any of us are concerned with that," Ziemer says. "I don't even know how much money is available. We were never told to try to limit the numbers." He added, "There's a lot of tension in what I'd call the emotional aspects. But why didn't Congress fix this...
...night shift last month. Those workers who had false papers had to make a decision: stay and risk detention and deportation if the rumor were true, or leave and expose themselves as illegal workers. Cargill wouldn't comment on the incident, but locals say that dozens fled the plant that night and were fired or quit after having outed themselves by leaving...