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Above the Law
And Inside Edition investigation exposed an inept investigation and possibly a cover-up by the Pennsylvania State Police when they investigated a fatal accident involving Dean O'Halloran, a state police officer's stepson.
Tags: cover-up; drunk driving; field sobriety test; confidentiality laws; blood alcohol test; Pennsylvania State Police
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Taser: The untold Story
The authors investigated the problems arising from the use of the taser guns as non-lethal force. People have died from the uses of tasers, and yet the Police departments around the country are still buying them in the thousands. Tasers were also failing in the field and in tests.
Tags: taser guns; law enforcement; non-lethal force; Taser International
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"Study Finds Diseases in 1918 Test Area"
A year long health survey of residents in a 345-house area of Spring Valley showed shocking results. These houses were built over a series of trenches, bunkers, and laboratory debris fields that were part of a W W 1 chemical warfare test area. Investigation shows that 131 people were afflicted with 56 separate diseases, which can be linked to arsenic, mustard gas, and Lewisite.
Tags: World War 1: W W 1; health; housing; chemical; warfare; diseases; arsenic; mustard gas; Lewisite; contamination
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Good Intentions, Bad Results
CBS 60 Minutes reports on "the adverse effects of Plan Colombia, the U.S. government's $1.3 billion aid package" intended to stem cocaine trade by fumigating coca fields in Colombia. The story reveals that after the fumigations farmers in Colombia experienced symptoms similar to ones from pesticide poisoning; the sprayed chemicals had not been tested and were a hundred times stronger than the U.S.-approved version; the fumigations killed not only coca plants but also legitimate crops and livestock.
Tags: health; safety; drugs; fever; rashes; EPA; Pesticide Action Network; Putumayo; TAPE; TRANSCRIPT
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Germs on the Loose: Bioweapons Tests Tainted Sites Around the Globe
"Every major World War II combatant had a biological weapons program," Choffnes writes, "and many of these countries' field test sites remain reservoirs of disease. Although the programs may have ended, the pathogens they released persist in the test sites' animal, bird, reptile, and insect populations. Unless extreme measures are taken to secure testing grounds, pathogens once released into the environment will adapt to new hosts and spread diseases to new areas...As it becomes harder to obtain pathogenic materials from private and public sources, terrorists or nations seeking to acquire a biological weapons capability might be tempted to obtain pathogen seed stocks from wildlife collections or other environmental sources of pathogenic materials." Story discusses in particular biological weapons testing sites in the U.S., Britain, and the former Soviet Union.
Tags: biological weapons; testing sites; field test; anthrax; bioweapons; disease; Vozrozhdeniye; U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction Program; Gruinard; U.S. Biological Defense Research Program; Chemical Warfare Service; Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
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Filth in the Fields
A report on field sanitation in Florida agriculture. We discovered flagrant violations of state and federal field sanitation laws. We found that government enforcement of those laws had fallen through bureaucratic cracks. Our tests of local strawberries detected alarming E-coli bacteria contamination. The local agriculture community disputed our findings. Farmers were angry. Yet, the story turned out to be an early warning for illness that broke out elsewhere last year.
Tags: TAPE
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The Learning Gap (Education Project)
After leveling the demographic playing field, this five-day series analyzed standardized test scores to determine the effectiveness of individual Omaha public schools. It found schools that consistently did better than their student demographics would have predicted, and it found schools that fell short. The series then examined the characteristics of successful schools to determine what set them apart from the rest: experienced and effective teachers, better discipline in the classroom, parental and community involvement and an aggressive focus on self-improvement.
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Fear in the fields -- How hazardous wastes become fertilizer (Hazardous Waste)
Toxic heavy metals, dioxins and radioactive wastes are being recycled as fertilizer and spread over fields nationwide, and there is no law requiring that they be listed as ingredients. Some large industries were saving millions in hazardous-waste disposal costs through the fertilizer loophole. In most cases, there was no science to say this practice is safe. The small number of scientists who knew about the practice said it was marked by uncertainty, unpredictability and unknowns. The EPA and state regulators, lobbied by industry, encouraged the practice in the name of recycling. But the regulators only test fertilizers for guaranteed nutrients. The toxic metals and dioxins were not listed on labels.
Tags: fertilizer; hazardous waste; Moxee City; Bay Zinc
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No title (id: 13907)
This investigation documents the systematic manner in which the Pentagon has put soldiers, sailors and pilots at risk by purchasing costly weapons systems prior to completing Operational Testing and evaluation. The result is the fielding of weapons which have cost lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. (November 23, 1996)
Tags: Kurits White Dacy Arkow et al Military weapons: buy now test later Contest entry 39 pgs. TAPE
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Mustard Gas Series
During W.W.II Canadian servicemen were used as human guinea pigs for mustard gas experiments at Camp Suffield in Alberta, Canada. They were exposed to poisonous gases in gas chambers and field tests. Many suffered severe blisters, asthma, skin conditions and cancers. This series reports on veterans memories of the experiments and their subsequent suffering.
Tags: Jones Stephenson The secret war chemicals 30 pgs. AUDIO TAPE