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    :: Thursday, July 08, 2004 ::

    Selling death by Rory O'Neill, Straight Goods
    Canadian government funds asbestos industry lobby group, leads campaign to keep selling lethal asbestos abroad.

    It blocked a deal that would have made it more difficult to unload asbestos on the developing world. It bought scientists and column inches in national papers. And it is killing hundreds of thousands each year. Hazards exposes the global asbestos industry's desperate battle for survival - at any price.
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