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Classification
Classification involves sorting items—things, people, facts, ideas—that
share similar features or characteristics. A classification paragraph
groups material that has something in common. The classification paragraph
below is structured according to the different groups of military personnel
(underlined) who may have been exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU) during
the Gulf War and Kosovo conflicts:
Similar
studies have been made of other veteran and civilian
sub-sets, with similar results: most service-men tested
through urinalysis showed no evidence of elevated DU (or natural
uranium, for that matter) in their bodies, or elevated levels
could not be correlated with any specific illness, including renal.
A study of veterans belonging to the Mississippi National
Guard found no evidence of a general increase in birth defects
or health problems among children born to these veterans, in spite
of anecdotal claims to the contrary. Urinalysis of 122 German
peacekeepers deployed to Kosovo after the air campaign revealed
that none had any "incorporated DU." Two cohorts of
Swedish soldiers were examined, 200 who had spent six months
in Kosovo and another 200 who were yet to deploy. . . .
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