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USAT kicks off a series on worldwide asbestos, stunning with the news that an epidemic of asbestos-related diseases emerging in the poorer nations of the world will in the next 30 years kill at least one million workers involved in mining and manufacturing the stuff.
W31 (Whitman says there is no reason for concern given EPA tests for asbestos).
A mountain of scientific studies has shown that asbestos in walls is almost never dangerous: The only dangerous thing is trying to rip it out because that causes fibers to become airborne--exactly what has happened at Berlaymont.
A6 (EPA says levels of airborne asbestos below threshold of concern); Hugo Kugiya,"Terrorist Attacks; Asbestos Targeted in Cleanup Effort; EPA's Whitman:'No reason for concern,'" Newsday, Sept. 16, 2001, p.