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$980,000, soout $11,000 for cach

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Wisescont © ; the_Rongclap children who were under the age of ten
at wig timo of Sellout oxposura mow have some type of thyroid pathology,"

roports Dr. Robort 4. Conard, Brookhaven National Laboratory physician who
hag visited the islanders wooly ‘every year to keep tabg on their
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