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  2. David Baker (activist) - Wikipedia

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    Baker is from Anniston, Alabama. [1] As children, he and his younger brother Terry would play in ditches and cross the water in the ditches that were used for the Monsanto plant run-off. [citation needed] In 1970 [2] his brother died of brain and lung cancer at the age of 17. Baker believes that this was caused by PCBs in the environment. [3]

  3. Polychlorinated biphenyl - Wikipedia

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    PCB warning label on a power transformer known to contain PCBs. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are highly carcinogenic chemical compounds, formerly used in industrial and consumer products, whose production was banned in the United States by the Toxic Substances Control Act in 1976 and internationally by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in 2001.

  4. Audrey Marie Hilley - Wikipedia

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    Audrey Marie Hilley ( née Frazier, later Homan; June 4, 1933 – February 26, 1987), also known by the aliases Robbi Hannon and Teri Martin, was an American murderer and suspected serial killer. She was suspected in the death by poisoning of her husband and the attempted murder of her daughter, and spent three years as a fugitive from justice.

  5. Body of Alabama inmate found dead in prison was returned to ...

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    December 14, 2023 at 1:53 PM. The family of an Alabama inmate who was found dead in his bed filed a federal lawsuit alleging that his heart had been removed before the facility returned the body ...

  6. Anniston Chemical Activity - Wikipedia

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    Anniston Chemical Activity. Coordinates: 33°37′36″N 85°59′9″W. Anniston Chemical Activity was a U.S. Army chemical weapon storage site located in Alabama. The Army had stored approximately seven percent of the nation’s original chemical weapons stockpile at the Anniston Army Depot since the early 1960s. In August 2003, the Army ...

  7. Alabama Barker Addresses Criticism Over Her Weight ... - AOL

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    Alabama Barker is hitting back at critics and body shamers in a candid message detailing her own recent health issues.The 17-year-old daughter of drummer Travis Barker and ex-wife Shanna Moakler ...

  8. Anniston, Alabama - Wikipedia

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    Anniston is the county seat of Calhoun County in Alabama, United States, and is one of two urban centers/principal cities of and included in the Anniston-Oxford Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census , the population of the city was 23,106. [2]

  9. Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins - Wikipedia

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    Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins. See also: 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin; Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds; and 1,4-Dioxin. General structure of PCDDs where n and m can range from 0 to 4. Polychlorinated dibenzodioxins ( PCDDs ), or simply dioxins, are a group of long-lived polyhalogenated organic compounds that are primarily anthropogenic ...