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Agent Orange's lethal legacy: For Vietnam War veterans, injustice follows injury
Tribune reporterPart 2 of a Tribune investigation finds that for many U.S. veterans, the bureaucratic fight to be compensated for health problems linked to Agent Orange amounts to a new and unexpected war, long after the shooting ended overseas. Complete coverage >>...Tags: Death, West Point, Illnesses, University of Texas at Austin, Health and Safety at School
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Agent Orange's lethal legacy: Defoliants more dangerous than they had to be
Tribune reportersPart 5 of a Tribune investigation unearths documents showing that decisions by the U.S. military and chemical companies that manufactured the defoliants used in Vietnam made the spraying more dangerous than it had to be. Complete coverage >> As the U.S....Tags: Employees, Illnesses, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Military, Health and Safety at Work
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U.S. companies again foot a lot of the Olympic bill
The Fabulous ForumNews and comment: News: U.S. Olympic Committee sponsor Proctor & Gamble will announce Wednesday that it has become an International Olympic Committee global sponsor as well. Comment: Another plus for the USOC in its efforts to regain international favor... -
Products derived from natural, nontoxic ingredients -- once seen as fringe -- are now mainstream.
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst of two parts At first, the experimental shampoo looked like a putrid salad dressing. Its oil and its water just couldn't get along. They separated in the bottle and, over time, the shampoo took on an ugly brown hue. The team at Avalon Organics,...Tags: Rohm & Haas Company, Stanford University, Health and Safety at School, Toys, Organic Chemical Industry
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The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: Altera Corp.; American Express Co.; Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc.; Avaya Inc.; BellSouth Corp.; Centex Corp.; Kraft Foods Inc.; Pactiv Corp.; Quest Diagnostics Inc.; SanDisk Corp.; Texas Instruments Inc. Tuesday: -- July consumer...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, American Express Company, Coca-Cola Enterprises Incorporated, Newmont Mining Corporation, Whirlpool Corp.
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Most industries remain dependent on hazardous substances
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSecond of two parts To a chemist, chlorine is the perfect compound. Easily combining with other elements and molecules, chlorine is transformed into new classes of chemicals with an endless array of uses. It disinfects water, cleans clothes, kills bugs,...Tags: Death, Rohm & Haas Company, Executive Branch, Health and Safety at Work, Drugs and Medicines
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Caution is the right reaction to chemical
CONSUMER CONFIDENTIALMaybe you've seen the ad showing an empty shopping cart in the middle of the desert. "Soon, many common, everyday products could disappear from grocery store shelves all across California," it warns. That would be pretty ominous, if it were true....Tags: Laws, National Institutes of Health, Health Organizations, Food Industry, Consumers
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Penalty Box: Dow Chemical Co.
Who's in it: The Dow Chemical Co. Who put it there: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. For what: Pollution law violations at the company's latex and Styrofoam insulation plant in Ledyard. The EPA said the plant failed to repair leaking valves that...Tags: Environmental Politics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Politics, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues
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End of the book?
Worlds shudder and collapse all the time. There's no news in that. Just ask the Assyrians, the last emperor of the Han Dynasty, the final Romanoff or Napoleon -- or Bernard Madoff. But when it seems to be happening to your world, well, that's a...Tags: Death, Newspapers, Companies and Corporations, Bank of America Corp., Los Angeles Times
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EPA official ousted while fighting Dow
Tribune reporterSAGINAW, Mich.—The battle over dioxin contamination in this economically stressed region had been raging for years when a top Bush administration official turned up the pressure on Dow Chemical to clean it up. On Thursday, following months of...Tags: Executive Branch, Nature, Environmental Pollution, Skin Rash, Environmental Politics
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