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TWICE A YEAR, The Department of Energy (DOE) goes to Micronesia to take toll of the damage caused by the repeated explosion of nuclear weaponry in the Marshall Islands. Usually the examinations involve a checking of thyroid glands, Darlene Keju, a Marshallese says, but only those who were around during the explosion of a 1954 hydrogen bomb are examined. "They are only interested in studies using us as guinea pigs," Keju says, adding that the recent generations of Marshallese are used as a control group for the tests...
...domestic violence. The simple fact is that more than 50 million handguns are is circulation in the United States today, and the number grows by two million a year. More than 11,000 Americans fall victim each year to handgun deaths. Hart's proposals are unlikely to lower this toll. His suggested background check would have little impact. First, states which already have such procedures acknowledge that because of limited police resources, they rarely run the examination. Second, a large portion of violent crimes are committed by those without a previous record. Finally, established criminals would have no problem buying...
...chased, beaten with nightsticks and sometimes shoved into police vans. Jorge del Prado, 73, a senator and leader of the Peruvian Communist Party, was struck in the chest by a tear-gas canister fired at close range. Despite the numerous clashes around the country however, the day's toll was miraculously low: none dead and about 50 injured, few seriously...
...held, and even South African officials have been impressed by the Angolan determination to end the border war. In recent weeks, troops from both countries have combined forces in a Joint Monitoring Commission (JMC), which has been forced to engage disruptive SWAPO forces on three separate occasions. The JMC toll: two killed and eight wounded, all Angolan. The fact that the Dos Santos government has been willing to let its soldiers fight against SWAPO, once its trusted ally, indicates how seriously it takes its new truce with South Africa...
...moderate form of this disorder, but Stormie was among the one in a million whose genetic makeup produces an extreme variety. Bilheimer was shocked to find that the child's cholesterol was at nearly nine times the normal level for someone her age. It had already taken a toll on her blood vessels, as the doctor learned when he held a stethoscope to her neck and legs. There, instead of silence, he heard the ominous, whooshing sound of blood struggling to get through blocked arteries...