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A recently released Government Accountability Office (GAO) study intended to help Congress grapple with the asbestos issue warns of deep flaws besetting existing federal compensation programs and should be a lesson to lawmakers contemplating a $140 billion asbestos trust fund, Public Citizen said today. Despite significant differences among the four programs it reviewed, the GAO found that they all shortchanged victims and swallowed tax dollars.

Asbestos deaths in the United States have skyrocketed since the late 1960s and will probably keep on climbing through the next decade because of long-ago exposure to the material, once widely used for insulation and fireproofing, the government said Thursday.

Bret Williams isn't used to being on the business end of a stethoscope. The 52-year-old doctor's place was on the other side, listening to the heartbeats of the rural North Carolinians who were once his patients.

Not any more, not since he learned last year that he has a crippling disease himself: malignant mesothelioma caused by asbestos exposure from childhood, summer jobs and home repairs.

The Supreme Court refused Monday to block a massive asbestos trial in West Virginia.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist did not comment in turning down requests from Mobil Corp. and other large companies that stand to lose millions if found liable in the trial scheduled for Sept. 23 in a West Virginia court.

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