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In their letter, the workers said the air in the tunnels is not surveyed for asbestos.

"The one thing we can tell you is we have breathed in an awful lot because it is everywhere and you can see it and physically pick it up," workers said.

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"She was buying Christmas presents for her son that day, and really had a tremendous amount of energy.

She seemed wonderful, and very, very grounded and strong." In her introduction to the first segment of "The New Medicine," Reeve tells viewers: "Your emotional state has a tremendous amount to do with sickness, health and well-being.

For years, my husband and I lived on - and because of - hope.

Hope continues to give me the mental strength to carry on." The project was the last she is known to have completed before her March 6 death, and it was a fitting one: "The New Medicine," which debuts at 9 tonight on KETC, Channel 9, looks at how mainstream doctors are embracing treatment of the whole patient - not just symptoms of a disease.

Reeve's appearance after her death unintentionally underscores one of the central points of the documentary: Holistic medicine is a tool for fighting illness - not a cure-all.

"Part of the challenge is we get patients all the time that are really looking for a magic cure," said Dr.

Tracy Gaudet, an obstetrician-gynecologist who heads the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine in Durham.

"We're not in the business of magic cures; we're in the business of good medicine." The Duke center uses any available technique - from alternative to mainstream - that might improv...