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Article: Mine Leaves Lasting Asbestos Scars on Montana Town.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- July 30, 2003
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By Jean Marbella, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 30--LIBBY, Mont.--When Bob Dedrick had a routine chest X-ray before a gall bladder operation, the doctor returned with the results and a ...uestion.
"Where do you live?" the doctor asked.
"Libby, Montana," Dedrick said.
"That explains it."
This small town of 2,800 residents in remote northwestern Montana has become shorthand for a public health disaster of tragic proportions -- and lingering ...uestions of corporate and governmental culpability.
The scarring that the doctor saw on Dedrick's lungs identified his hometown as clearly as a ...