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    "The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
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    :: Monday, March 03, 2003 ::

    Health problems plague Ground Zero workers Nearly 18 months after the World Trade Center collapsed in a rain of dust, Frank Noviello still feels the aftereffects. The construction foreman toiled for months in a choking haze of smoldering debris to help clear the wreckage. Today, he worries about the toll that cleanup has taken on his emotional and physical health.

    "Where's that crushed concrete? It's in our lungs now," says Noviello, 39, of East Islip, N.Y.
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