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Actor Steve McQueen, Beloved Husband of Barbara McQueen, Honored Posthumously with the Warren Zevon ?Keep Me in Your Heart? Memorial Tribute Award: January 13, 2012 - The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) today announced that it is honoring Steve McQueen with the Warren Zevon "Keep Me in Your Heart" Memorial Tribute Award. McQueen, a global cinema legend in the 1960s and 1970s, passed away in 1980 from the asbestos-related cancer, mesothelioma. The Warren Zevon Tribute will be presented at noon on [...]
Annual Asbestos Awareness Day Grows into a Global Asbestos Awareness Week: March 28, 2011 - For more than a hundred years, knowledge of asbestos’ risks has been well documented. However, despite the seemingly widespread understanding that asbestos exposure kills, it was only seven years ago, on April 1, 2005 that the first "National Asbestos Awareness Day" was held. Perhaps even more amazing is the comparatively short chain of events starting, [...]

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