NY 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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Volatile dust was blamed Friday in an explosion that leveled a sugar refinery, and crews pulled four bodies from tunnels beneath the mangled mass of metal and beams left by the blast.
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Street-sweepers can receive bonus pay for cleaning up after bombings, but they do not relish the grisly job.
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NEW YORK -- They&#39;ve cleaned up the old burg, made it safer for the tourists, but you can still get your pocket picked or your purse snatched.
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NEW YORK -- City officials last month quietly activated some of the nation's newest generation of early warning sensors to detect a biological attack, turning on a limited number of filing-cabinet-size air filters in sensitive, high-volume areas of Manhattan.
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People in Florida and Alabama have started to clean up after hurricane Ivan - the third such pummelling for Florida alone in just five weeks.
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The New Zealand city of Gisborne cleans up after a powerful earthquake damaged buildings and roads.
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New ventilation units blast curtains of purified air between patients and nurses in Washington Hospital Center's emergency room. Outside, yellow tarpaulins and water taps can decontaminate people on the sidewalk.
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CARNEGIE, Pa. - John Ferri rushed feverishly around his mud-soaked monument business over the weekend, cleaning off the granite gravestones with window cleaner and carrying out boxes of trash...
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Rescue efforts at a Siberian mine after an explosion Thursday morning are over, and the bodies of all the 13 dead have been recovered.
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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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A suspicious white powder was found in a New York building occupied by the Daily News newspaper and the Associated Press on Tuesday, a police spokesman said.
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Bodies were still being recovered a week after Thailand's tidal wave disaster, as the clean-up moved into full speed in some of the devastated resort areas.
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BIG RAPIDS, Mich. - Workers cleaning out the gutters at an apartment complex found more than just leaves and sticks...
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Researchers at Mount Sinai Medical Center found that almost 70 percent of workers who helped with the cleanup suffered new or worsened respiratory symptoms.
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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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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.