New York cleans up after asbestos-tainted blast
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Some New Yorkers doubted official assurances on Thursday that the air surrounding a deadly steam pipe explosion in midtown Manhattan was safe to breathe despite the discovery of asbestos-tainted debris.
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By JAY LINDSAY; Associated Press  Though some 90 houses in the neighborhood were damaged, no one was seriously hurt or killed in the explosion.   * * *   DANVERS, Mass. - Jim Glavin planned a quiet early morning, with a few hours of reclining on his couch and watching TV.
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A New York woman has been added to the  number of victims killed in the attack on the World Trade  Center, in the first confirmed death from dust generated by the  collapse of the twin towers.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- A U.S. Supreme Court decision this week involving voluntary cleanup of contamination will have a huge local impact as pollution is removed from a former munitions plant, officials said Tuesday.
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Pilar Albarado spent five months after September 11, 2001, cleaning pulverized building material from apartment buildings and offices near the site of the World Trade Center. A chronic cough came two years later, and she is also battling asthma, memory loss and acid reflux.
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News From USW: An explosion and fire that forced workers to evacuate a  hazardous waste facility owned by Giant Resource Recovery near Arvonia,  Virginia is causing alarm near another Giant facility that handles more  than twice as much hazardous waste.
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A major investigation is underway in New Caledonia to find out where asbestos, blamed for an unusually high rate of lung cancer on the French Pacific island territory, occurs in the environment.
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A New York window cleaner who survived a 500ft (150m) fall is making a "miracle recovery", doctors say.
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The lung disease that killed a police detective who toiled for weeks at ground zero was caused by injecting ground-up pills, not by toxic dust from the World Trade Center, the city medical examiner's office confirmed Thursday.
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Work will begin Friday to dismantle a vacant, contaminated skyscraper that has loomed above ground zero since Sept. 11, 2001, when one of the World Trade Center towers collapsed into it, officials said Thursday.
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TABA, Egypt- Investigators lifted fingerprints, swabbed dust and collected tissue yesterday from the wreckage of three car bombings and detained scores of Bedouin tribesmen, including quarry workers who could have provided the explosives that killed at
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The study is expected to erase any doubts about the connection between dust from the trade center and the diseases that workers have reported suffering.
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First, roaches. Now, second-hand smoke. It's more litigation by residents at the Ansonia, the majestic Beaux-Arts building on the Upper West Side.
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The company said it had worked with health officials to clean and re-stock the affected restaurants.
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NEW YORK -- Panicked residents fear a partially dismantled building where a recent blaze killed two firefighters and stripped away protective coverings may be releasing some of the toxic contaminants that blanketed the neighborhood on Sept. 11, 2001.
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As New York City firefighters struggled to find survivors in the haze and rubble of the World Trade Center collapse, the fire department's chief doctor was thinking about how to keep them safe from toxins in the air.
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A New York woman has been added to the number of victims killed in the attack on the World Trade Center, in the first confirmed death from dust generated by the collapse of the twin towers.