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...cleanup efforts for 24 of its own vehicles during and after the war. Capt. Doug Rokke, who headed these operations, said in the same documentary it took three months to prepare them and a full three years to clean them up. Rokke described the “thousands and thousands?? of contaminated vehicles all over Iraq, Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo which have yet to be cleaned. He himself now has lung and kidney problems while he claims that many other members of his clean-up team have subsequently fallen ill or are dying of cancer. Rokke?...
...University Research Professor E. O. Wilson, who spoke at ARCO Forum last week about the crisis facing thousands of species of plants and animals that have been driven to the brink of extinction in part by human activity. He makes a very convincing argument that humans can save untold thousands??perhaps even millions—of species by protecting their habitats and halting wholesale exploitation of wilderness areas. But Wilson does not convincingly explain why we should save any specific plant or animal species...
...list of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s misdeeds is overwhelming. Besides shunning international weapons inspectors, seeking to obtain nuclear missiles, torturing political prisoners and starving his own people, Hussein “has already used poison gas to murder thousands?? of native Iraqis, as Bush noted...
...twin towers of the World Trade Center. Another crashed into the face of the Pentagon building in Washington, and a fourth went down 80 miles outside of Pittsburgh. Authorities have resisted reporting the number of possible victims, but it is likely to be in the tens of thousands??each a father or a mother, a friend or child...