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Interesting news about big stories followed on the FM website

By / 2 Comments / 20 July 2013

Summary: The FM website provides two kinds of services: forecasts and news.  The forecasting record is quite good. See the hits listed here, and the misses here. With the news, we try to highlight emerging stories before the major media. Updates on these themes get posted on twitter (to follow see the top of the …

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Did exposure to “burn pits” in Iraq and Afghanistan harm our troops?

By / 2 Comments / 21 February 2018

Excerpt from “Lung disease of soldier linked to burn pits” in the Military Times, 30 June 2009: Even as military health officials continue to say there are “no known long-term health effects” caused by open-air burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, a team of Army doctors says a soldier’s cystic lung disease is “related to …

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