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Disease is swift, response is slow
Sun reporterIt took two years on the job and a chemical in something as ordinary as butter flavoring to turn a strapping factory worker into someone who sleeps tethered to an oxygen tank. Francisco Herrera, 32, suffers from an aggressive disease that has destroyed...Tags: Respiratory Disease, Children, Drugs and Medicines, Business, Symptoms
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Upshaw asking Congress for help
Sun reporterNFL Players Association chief Gene Upshaw asked Congress yesterday for assistance in improving a disability benefits system that retired players say repeatedly let them down when they were poor and ailing from old football injuries. "We have made great...Tags: Baltimore Colts, John Kerry, National Football League, Labor Legislation, Laws
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Teams in New Orleans begin their grisly search
Sun National StaffNEW ORLEANS -- Rescue teams searched swamped street after street, house to house yesterday for those still living in this devastated city, as the U.S. health and human services secretary estimated that Hurricane Katrina and the flood that followed...Tags: Emergency Planning, Death, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Wolf Blitzer, U.S. Army
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Isabel victims commiserate; some still wait
Sun StaffTwo years after escaping her flooded Baltimore County neighborhood in a rowboat, Debra Simon watched her television in horror the past several days, reliving the nightmare of losing her home to a wall of water. She has watched Hurricane Katrina...Tags: Emergency Planning, Maryland, Baltimore County, Meteorological Disasters, Insurance
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Flavoring perils get harder look
sun reporterA federal health agency says it is "greatly expanding" an investigation of the potential hazards of diacetyl and other flavoring chemicals that have been linked to nearly 200 cases of lung disease among factory workers who make or use the chemicals. In...Tags: Censorship, Respiratory Disease, Butter, Illnesses, Death
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Bush vows 'huge' aid effort in 2nd Gulf Coast visit
Sun National StaffNEW ORLEANS - As rescuers intensified their search yesterday for survivors and bodies in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast, President Bush returned to the stricken area to thank relief workers and pledge a "huge effort" to help the region recover from...Tags: Transportation Accidents, Emergency Planning, Suicide, Death, Arts
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David Nitkin on state politics issues
Joi and Marshall James, Baltimore: My husband and I are very excited about Anthony McCarthy running for office. We were big fans of his program at WYPR and have followed his career for many years. I read in your paper that he is running against the...Tags: NAACP, Hospitals and Clinics, Maryland, Political Systems, Elections
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Embracing Isabel's 'silver lining'
Sun reporterOn a point overlooking Galloway Creek, Joe and Rosalie Hession savor sunsets from the top floor of their new, round, hurricane-resistant house. Up the road, William and Janice Norris are still living in a cramped, government-issued trailer. But they draw...Tags: Photography, Emergency Planning, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Real Estate Agents, Homes
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Shelter residents find sense of community
Sun National StaffGULFPORT, Miss. - J.J. drives his butcher's knife into the bright flesh of a split watermelon and leaves it there. He squats down, squints and surveys the refugee-packed parking lot of Gulfport Central Elementary from beneath the brim of a camouflage cap....Tags: Health and Safety at School, Happiness (state of mind), Refugee, Family, Food Industry
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Extent of storm damage growing
Sun StaffTropical Storm Isabel destroyed or severely damaged thousands of Maryland homes and businesses, government officials said yesterday as the full extent of the storm's toll began to emerge. More than 3,300 homes were damaged or destroyed in eastern...Tags: Carroll County (Maryland), Emergency Planning, Bowie, Maryland, Business
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Hatch door discovered in Texas is thought to come from shuttle
Associated PressHEMPHILL, Texas -- Searchers trudging through the East Texas woods yesterday found a charred hatch door with a hydraulic opening mechanism believed to have been part of the space shuttle Columbia. "The hatch for the most part was intact," said...Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, Space Programs, Environmental Politics
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