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Illness, coverup at Umatilla Chapter one of five: setting the stage-- workers fall ill and questions arise.

by: Jim McCandlish, J.D. - printed on 11-03-2000

Congratulations. You live 175 miles west of where 12% of our nation’s stockpile of chemical weaponry is stored at the Umatilla Chemical Depot near Hermiston in northeastern Oregon.

A deadly nerve gas called "sarin" (injuring 5500 and killing 12 in the 1995 Tokyo subway attack) and a blister agent called "mustard" (popularized by the Germans in WW I) are stored in an area known as "K Block"--89 earth-bermed igloos (also called "bunkers") in a geometric configuration worthy of thegarden at Versailles.

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Hope for natives...but can society's attitudes change?

by: Kathy Kenny - printed on 02-14-2001

“They’re different, just not the same as us. They aren’t capable of achieving our standards. They’re backwards alcoholics…”

These are some explanations given to me as to why Native Americans have so many poverty problems and face such stern racism throughout the country. Once a population between 6 to 20 million, the Native American people have been eliminated to only a population of 2.4 million, although they began the century with a population of only 200,000.

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Breaking stereotypes: A fangirl speaks up

by: Kattie Gardner - printed on 04-24-2002

Growing up, the naive little girl that I was, I used to think that comics were nothing more than a bunch of boys running around in tights, shooting at each other with rays coming out of their fingers. The thought of picking up a comic book and actually reading it seemed silly and childish. I pictured comic readers as being nerdy little fan-boys who lived in their parents? basement and spent hours debating the finer points of D&D.

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Thinking about Golden Rice

by: Annie Senner - printed on 04-24-2002

Basic calories or enhanced vitamin intake: What is our first priority? A site visit to a poor resettlement community is Zambales Province, Philippines

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Do not be afraid of big birds

by: Isaac Vanderburg - printed on 10-24-2001

Those West African tropical storms sure make for great conversations.

Like this time, two years ago, on the way to Ghana (the first time mom had returned in 30 years), on a lurching Ghana Airways 747 with 16 people on board. The plane left from London at one in the morning, so before the storm hit there hadn’t been much talking going on, just sleeping sounds and the occasional hiss of a pop can or flight attendant’s beep.

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State of the Union: The Empire Rolls Back

by: Ryan O'Connor - printed on 02-06-2002

"Let?s roll."

President Bush, at the climax of his State of the Union address, tossed the nation his latest attempt at a national catchphrase. Somehow ?let?s roll? is supposed to become this nation?s mantra.

Tired of fighting evil terrorists and rogue nations? Sick of seeing our young men and women perishing while bombing and shooting other nations' futures? Let?s roll.

Let?s roll onward, toward our place in history.

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