Issue No. 34 August 1997	How to Get a Password

Tests Show Gulf War Vets Have Brain Damage, Not Stress Linked to pesticide combo that damages nervous system, brain Bear Lincoln Trial Opens MONITOR SPECIAL REPORT In an opening day marked by contrasts, the court hears overviews of the case from both sides including new evidence from the defense; the judge rebukes the D.A. for weak opening; Serra questions Deputy Miller's story; prosecutor Williams shocks the court by closing his case abruptly and announcing his resignation Prosecutor, Defense Introduce Case Miller's Tale The D.A.'s Lone Surprise "Foul Air" Industries Lobbying Hard to Kill New EPA Pollution Regs Smokestack industry waging intense PR campaign to prevent cleaner air from becoming a reality World Bank Faces Probe on Enviro, Human Rights Violations Under fire for separate projects in India, Brasil Pollution Crisis Shuts Down Chile Capitol Bad air sends 10,000 children to emergency care Greenpeace, Oil Company in Arctic Standoff As Clinton plans to open largest expanse of undeveloped public land in North America to oil companies NRA Fighting U.N. Over Weapons Curb Darkly hints that efforts to restrict gun trafficking could cause trouble for world body with U.S. Congress U.S. Selling Record Number of Weapons to Third World $7 billion in weapons sold to poorest countries Heavy TV Viewing Linked To Psychological Trauma Study finds 1 child out of 6 might need counseling Radioactive Village to be Evacuated -- Someday Russia kept small town exposed to nuclear waste since 1950s Tobacco Farming Latest Brazilian Forest Threat Dwindling southern virgin forests increasingly cleared for tobacco farms, fuel for drying leaves Logging Brought Boom, Then Bust For African Town Community now becoming a ghost town Have a Mexican Condom, Go To Jail Church, Mexican right wing oppose condom use, distribution Class Action Suit Against "Cyanide River" Guyana Mine Two years later, 30,000 worry about health effects from contaminated river 404: News Missing Summaries of under-reported news, short updates on previous Monitor stories

	The polio vaccine saved thousands in the 1950s, but may also be starting to cause the greatest health crisis in American history THE MOST IMPORTANT HEALTH STORY YOU'LL SEE THIS YEAR Is the mercury in your dental fillings slowly poisoning you? Not according to the American Dental Association, but many dentists think so, and say the organization is persecuting them for speaking out

Jim Hightower Another Senseless Death in the Drug War Stealth Attack of Anti-Enviro Misinformation "Brownlash" from right filters down into popular media Why is the Middle Class so Unhappy if "Life has Never Been Better?" That the wealthy "work harder and smarter" is the kind of simplistic argument that could only fool a Libertarian Norman Solomon How Bush Got a Golden Parachute From Rev. Moon Media Slant Against Labor, UPS Strikers The Bill of Rights' Greatest Defender A legacy of freedoms left by Supreme Court Justice Brennan Alexander Cockburn U.S. Media Ignores Drug Smuggling, Covert Research Story UPS and Part-Time America Letters

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