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UNDATED (AP) Tiger Woods says he’s putting aside golf for now to try to save his marriage. A statement on his Web site says his “infidelity” has hurt and disappointed many people, including his family. Woods says he’s taking an indefinite leave from the game.
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nedhamson1 Separating news and spin designed to sell advertising and policy is not always easy but this only took 2 minutes of googling to find that 11 people per 100,000 is the average suicide rate. There are 548 thousand or so people in the US Army.
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BERLIN Often, as I have passed through the main train station here in the German capital, I have seen the sad, lone figure of a soldier, heavy pack on his back, waiting for a train like the rest of us, but separated from the crowd by the uniform he wears. No one would stop to thank him for his service or to ask whether he had been deployed to Afghanistan. The loneliness was obvious, but at times I even sensed what I thought might have been fear, at the occasional hostile looks the soldier would receive alongside the impassiveness of the broader masses on the platform, who just tried to pretend he wasn’t there. In Afghanistan recently, where German troops are engaged in ground combat the likes of which their military hasn’t seen since World War II, I described my impressions of the home front to a group of soldiers from a reconnaissance company
Socratoad bits.blogs.nytimes.com By Claire Cain Miller Many veterans are coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan with serious problems, like post-traumatic stress disorder, but only one-third get medical help. One researcher has built a healing center for veterans in a virtual world, where she hopes they will be more comfortable seeking care. Jacquelyn Ford Morie is a senior researcher at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California . She formerly did animation for Disney
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ratilfar www.huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON — European astronomers have found 32 new planets outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop. Scientists using the European Southern Observatory telescope didn’t find any planets quite the size of Earth or any that seemed habitable or even unusual. But their announcement increased the number of planets discovered outside the solar system to more than 400. Six of the newly found planets are several times bigger than Earth, increasing the population of so-called super-Earths by more than 30 percent
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merrie which even at the time they were made should have been seen as what they obviously were: so much campaign puffery. What is this strategy? It’s one Obama uses for many issues, not just Afghanistan. It goes something like this: (1) say whatever you think will get you votes, even if you don’t mean it (2) do something opposite when the original stance becomes politically inexpedient and/or unecessary (3) don’t acknowledge the contradiction or even attempt to explain it (4) if somehow you are forced to break rule three and acknowledge your reversal, blame it on someone else”preferably George Bush, Republicans in general, and/or those crazy Tea Party attendees
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brightlight4 Left out in the rain to rot were crayon drawings by children who had lost a parent, photographs of soldiers with their babies, painted portraits and thank-you notes from grade-school kids to fallen soldiers they had never known. Colors of artworks ran together. Photos were blurred and wilted
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KABUL â” Insurgents have captured an American soldier in eastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Thursday.Spokeswoman Capt. Elizabeth Mathias said the soldier went missing Tuesday.”We are using all of our resources to find him and provide for his safe return,” Mathias said.Mathias did not provide details on the soldier, the location where he was captured or the circumstances.”We are not providing further details to protect the soldier’s well-being,” she said.An Afghan police official said the soldier went missing during the day Tuesday in the Mullakheil area of eastern Paktika province. Gen.
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sahara www.boston.com Soliders from the U.S. Army Old Guard place flags at grave stones at Arlington National Cemetery May 21, 2009 in Arlington, Virginia. It took 1,300 soldiers, sailors and Marines about three hours to place a flag at each of the more than 300,000 gravestones at Arlington ahead of the Memorial Day weekend Visitors walk among white marble crosses at the American Cemetery, in Colleville sur Mer. Traces of World War II can still be found across this stretch of Normandy, on the beaches, in the museums and above all, in the cemeteries where President Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkzoy and some of the last veterans will commemorate the 65th anniversary of the June 6, 1944 landings War Memorial in Natick, Massachusetts Laura Youngblood, widow of U.S.
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