IN THE AIR. The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions heard testimony yesterday on the �long-term health impacts from 9/11.� Despite initial reports, including some intentionally false ones by the EPA that the air in lower Manhattan was not hazardous following the attack, the numerous cases of “World Trade Center Cough� and other sometimes serious ailments have proved otherwise.
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