Outrageously-plumed racegoers sip Mint Juleps from air-conditioned boxes while college students on spring break pack the infield.

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Munitions containing depleted uranium, a slightly radioactive heavy metal, were dropped by US aircraft during the 78-day air campaign against Yugoslavia in spring 1999, and in Bosnia during 1994 and 1995.

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The British defense journal Jane's Intelligence Digest reported in the spring that the Russian sale of highly advanced S-300PS surface-to-air missiles to Belarus may windup being secretly transferred to Iran as part of a trilateral agreement between Moscow, Minsk, and Tehran.

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