AO Compensation in Canada

Those exposed to Agent Orange near an air base in Canada to receive compensation:

Veterans Affairs Minister Greg Thompson says to expect a compensation package for those affected by sprayings of Agent Orange or other harmful herbicides at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown...
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AO Roundtable at Columbia

From the SIPA events newsletter:

The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

Lecture: Agent Orange and the Environment—From Research to Remediation on the Consequences of Chemical Warfare
Speaker: Dr. Boi, a forestry and GIS specialist with the Forest Inventory and Planning Institute in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Please RSVP by 3/25 to jeb2118@columbia.edu

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
IAB, Room 1101
*Lunch will be served

James Nachtwey

A photojournalism piece on Agent Orange is up for a National Magazine Award:

Photographer James Nachtwey photographed two stories nominated in the "Photojournalism" category, one in National Geographic (for his piece on military medicine in Iraq) and one in Vanity Fair (for his piece on the effects of Agent Orange).
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You can see Nachtwey's Vanity Fair photo essay here.

It accompanies a Christopher Hitchers article, The Vietnam Syndrome.