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...decades on Vieques. Much of the scientific community howled at that verdict, given that independent studies of hair, vegetation and other local specimens indicate island residents have been exposed to excessive levels of lead, mercury, cadmium and aluminum. "The [ATSDR] conclusion seemed borderline criminal," says former Vieques mayor Radames Tirado, a plaintiff in the Sanchez suit who says at least 13 of his relatives there today have cancer. Says Arturo Massol, a biologist at the University of Puerto Rico in Mayaguez, "We've also found that since the Navy left, those contaminants have decreased eightfold. That's no coincidence...
...tail. Dangling a life preserver ring to them, the chopper began ferrying them to shore. One woman had injured her right arm, so Pilot Don Usher lowered the copter until its skids touched the water; his partner, Eugene Windsor, scooped her up in his arms. Then Priscilla Tirado, 23, grabbed the preserver, but as she was being helped out of the icy river by Fellow Passenger Joseph Stiley, she lost her grip. Lenny Skutnik, a clerk for the Congressional Budget Office who was watching from the shore, plunged into the water and dragged her to land. But the most notable...
Secret blogs, like Friedman's and Brown's, are the exception, not the rule. Most family blogs are designed to keep family and friends up to date or to create a permanent record that can be shared with children as they grow up. Carlos Tirado, 40, launched Benjamin's Babyblog not only to track his son's development and his own progress as a father but also so that he and his wife Caterina could stay in touch with their families in Mexico, Arkansas and the western U.S. from their home in the Bronx, N.Y. "I don't have...
...hope that the couple's ordeal would quickly end. "Christmas is a time for pardons. It is a tradition here," he said. "Leniency can and should be expected. Nicaragua is not out for revenge." Other officials were less generous. "He should get 30 years in prison," said Comandante Victor Tirado Lopez. Last week El Nuevo Diario, a progovernment newspaper, quoted an official as saying, "The possibility that Soldier of Fortune Eugene Hasenfus will be pardoned in the short term by the Sandinista government is practically...
...Eastern Air Lines office at Miami International Airport. Posted was a list of the names of people losing their jobs. As part of a major cost-cutting program, the financially strapped airline had just announced that it would furlough 1,010 of its 7,200 flight attendants. Said Wilfred Tirado, seeing his name: "I have a $763 monthly mortgage and a two-month-old son. Now what am I going to do?" In other airports, 23,000 additional Eastern workers, including reservations clerks and ticket takers, learned that their salaries were being rolled back...