This Tiny Island Helps Preserve U.S. Dominance in the Pacific. Its People Pay a Painful Price

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EBEYE, Marshall Islands, Sept 24 (Reuters) – Every Friday on this tiny Pacific isle, Korab Lanwe does his rounds. The people he visits have severely swollen, discolored legs, or wounds that won’t heal, or have lost a limb. They are so ill they cannot leave their homes of plywood and metal shee...

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