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VA to reconsider benefits for ill Gulf War vets
AP/Roguegovernment
The Veterans Affairs Department will re-examine the disability claims of what could be thousands of Gulf War veterans suffering from ailments they blame on their war service, the first step toward potentially compensating them nearly two decades after the war ended.
Virulent Bird-Human Flu Hybrid Made in Lab
Brandon Keim/Wired
Engineered hybrids of bird and human flu strains have proven virulent in mice, raising the disturbing possibility that a natural recombination could be deadly to humans.
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Top Silicon Valley bio-tech lawyer killed in small-plane crash
Joe Rodriguez/Mercury News
Albert P. Halluin, one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent lawyers, loved to fly small planes. So after Wednesday’s deadly crash in East Palo Alto, his two sons called to express some concern about his avocation.
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Over 40 poultry farm workers hospitalized with infection in Siberia
RIA Novosti
Over 40 poultry farm workers have been hospitalized with acute intestinal infection in the Altai Territory in south Siberia, the regional administration reported on Sunday.
The workers of the Altai Broiler poultry farm were taken to hospitals in the city of Biysk after their night shift with an acute infection of unknown origin, the administration [...]
KBR Tells Court It Was Following Military Orders When Employees Burned Toxic Waste in Open Pits
Nora Eisenberg/AlterNet
In October a class action suit combining 22 lawsuits from 43 states was filed in US District Court in Maryland against KBR, Halliburton, and other military contractors for damages to health from open air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. According to plaintiffs’ lawyers the military contracting giant had been paid millions of dollars [...]
Vets say toxic tests sickened them; government says prove it
michaelmoore.com
Army says it used ‘voluntary human subjects,’ but ill man says ‘I was private first class I did anything they told me to do.’
Matthew D. LaPlante / Salt Lake City Tribune
Even those who know the area best won’t step far off the narrow, muddy road that runs through the center of the desolate toxic [...]
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Human Terrain: US Matrix-style cyberwar firing range goes to Phase II
Lewis Page/The Register
US plans to develop a virtual network world – to be populated by mirror computers and inhabited by myriad software sim-people “replicants”, and used as a firing range in which to develop the art of cyber warfare – have moved ahead.
The so-called “National Cyber Range” project will now move forward to Phase II, [...]
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CDC: Two-thirds of cocaine seized on US borders cut with cancer drug
Stephen C. Webster/Raw Story
If you’re doing cocaine, chances are this story will not make you quit. But it may make you think twice about your supplier.
A new report by the Centers for Disease control follows 21 cases of the otherwise rare disorder known as agranulocytosis, which is hallmarked by a severe weakening of immune function.
The [...]
1997 DoD Briefing: ‘Others’ can set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely using electromagnetic waves