PUBLIC
HEALTH CRISIS
Shonnell Jordan is a wriggling, squirming little boy who is hyperactive
and developmentally delayed. He is one of the nearly 3,000 Rhode Island
children who were diagnosed with elevated blood-lead levels last year,
part of a cycle of misery that continues despite all we know about
lead. MORE
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ABATEMENT
When
Kerrin Field was an infant, her parents renovated their house in Edgewood.
Though both are health-care professionals, they were unaware of the
danger to their daughter's developing brain that lurked in the lead
paint they were scraping off windows and doors. MORE
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MEDICAL
Two
weeks after Sunday Abek's parents brought her to New England to escape
the devastation of war in Sudan, she lay dying in a hospital. Tests
later showed she had been poisoned by lead paint that was flaking
off the porch of the tenement where the family settled. MORE
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EDUCATION
Ashley
Matthews is one of the many Rhode Island children who are swelling
special-education classes because of lead-paint poisoning. Each school
day, often working one-on-one with a teacher, she struggles to relearn
words and concepts she lost when she was poisoned. MORE
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LEGAL
LANDSCAPE
Jalen
Ravello-Hayre will never have the bright future he should have had,
though he will be financially secure, thanks to his mother who brought
a lawsuit against the landlord of the apartment where he was poisoned
and to the lawyer who won the case on his behalf. MORE
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SOLUTIONS
To
shake Rhode Island out of its complacency and to stop the lead poisoning
of our children, Atty. Gen. Sheldon Whitehouse is going after unresponsive
landlords. He has also filed a precedent-setting lawsuit against
the companies that manufactured paint containing lead. Some advocates
are pushing for additional measures to curb lead poisoning. MORE
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Read
an introduction.
Fallout
from publication of Poisoned, plus coverage of Rhode Island's suit
against lead-paint manufacturers.
Read
the transcript of an online chat conducted with series author Peter B.
Lord.
Send
us your comments about the series.
Photos
from the series, including many only available online.
Instructional
clips about dealing with lead paint.
Court
papers from Rhode Island's lawsuit against lead-paint manufacturers.
Who to contact for information and advice.
Lead
paint information online.
About those who produced this series.
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to this series from your Web site.
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