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Pentagon has role in climate change
The big story in The Sun this past week was the unforeseen storm. In the editorial, "Feeling powerless" (July 3), the question asked was this a "freak occurrence?" Your answer makes sense: "Climate science suggests that global warming will make unusual...Tags: Global Change, Environmental Issues, Global Warming
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Iran Claims Seizure of U.S. Drone Over Persian Gulf
CNNTehran, Iran-- Iran's navy has captured what it says is a U.S. drone after it entered Iranian airspace over the Persian Gulf. However, a U.S. defense official, who could not be named because the official was not authorized to speak to the media, told CNN...Tags: U.S. Military, Iran, CNN (tv network), U.S. Navy, Military Equipment
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Lead limits on military firing ranges outdated, report says
Researchers commissioned by the Defense Department said Monday that decades-old limits on lead exposure are inadequate to protect the health of workers on military firing ranges. Moreover, the National Academy of Science reported, lead from ammunition...
Tags: Fort Detrick (military base), Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Employees, Career and Workplace, Leon Panetta
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Orwell's '1984' coming true
AberdeenIn the 1949 science fiction book, “1984,” writer George Orwell describes the mythical land of Oceania where Big Brother watches and controls all aspects of its citizens' lives. The media is controlled by Big Brother and the thought...Tags: Security Measures, George W. Bush, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Terrorism, New York City
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Bradley Manning deserves to be set free
Finally, the trial of the century made the front page of The Sun ("Accused WikiLeaker to ask for dismissal," Nov. 26). I will join others outside the main gate to Fort Meade to show support for the whistleblower Pfc. Bradley Manning during his latest...Tags: Bradley Manning, Daniel Ellsberg
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Dann Cahn dies at 89; editor on 'I Love Lucy'
Using a newly developed editing machine that he dubbed the "three-headed monster," Dann Cahn pioneered multi-camera editing on sitcoms in the 1950s while helping to craft a classic, "I Love Lucy." "Lucy" broke ground in television by employing three...
Tags: Comedy (genre), Lucille Ball, Drama (genre), The Untouchables (movie), Newspaper and Magazine
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Pentagon to send missiles, 400 troops to Turkey
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (AP) — The U.S. will send two batteries of Patriot missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attack, the Pentagon said Friday. Defense...
Tags: Missile Systems, Weaponry, Barack Obama, Turkey, Leon Panetta
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Curtis B. Reiber, Army officer
Curtis B. Reiber, an Army intelligence officer whose career spanned three decades, died Nov. 20 of a stroke at Saint Agnes Hospital. He was 77.
The son of a DuPont Co. worker and a homemaker, Curtis Brooks Reiber was born in Centre Hall, Pa., and...Tags: Vietnam, Anglicanism, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Christianity, Melbourne
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Military families worried by US fiscal cliff cuts
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Emerging from more than a decade at war, military families are confronting a new worry at home: the prospect that a deal between Congress and the White House over federal spending cuts could chip away at military health...
Tags: Barack Obama, White House, Leon Panetta, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Department of Defense
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Judge accepts terms of Manning's proposed plea
A military judge on Thursday accepted the terms under which an Army private would plead guilty to seven charges for sending classified documents to WikiLeaks. Col. Denise Lind ruled during the third day of a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade for Pfc....
Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Bradley Manning, Judges, Suicide, Psychiatry
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Obama backs off hard lines in search of compromise
WASHINGTON (AP) — Just two weeks before the economy-threatening "fiscal cliff" is due to kick in, both President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner are making significant concessions to each other, backing off what had once been ironclad...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Government Health Care, Washington, DC, Medicare
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Season 2 of Syfy’s “Alphas” to feature new and returning notable guest stars
Channel Guide MagazineSyfy's Alphas returns for its second season July 23 at 10pm ET/PT, coming off of its hit first season last summer, when it averaged 3.3 million total viewers. The series follows a clandestine group of ordinary people with superhuman mental and physical...
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