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...patrol. "I was put in that position and none of it was to do with me or was my fault," he said. He told TIME he was enthusiastic about leaving the army but was having difficulty finding work due to an injury sustained during military training. "There's no actual civilian employment I can slot back into with my military training that interests me. I was hoping to look at offshore security work but I'm not sure," he said...
...evil incarnate. Tolkien's baddies rarely have much in the way of personality, and Morgoth spends most of his time squatting in his dark fortress of Angband, casting a shadow over the land and generally making war on all that is just and beautiful. He leaves most of the actual scrapping to his lieutenants, most notably Glaurung, a wingless, wormy and rather sarcastic dragon...
...respect. But then as now, what the middle class failed to recognize is that without equal rights, these groups could never achieve the American dream. To demonstrate the spirit of individualism that pervaded the country of the time, Richardson peppers her overarching view of societal trends with tales of actual individuals. The aptly chosen lives she traces help the reader understand the motivations of the time and make it more personal. These individual stories allow Richardson to delve into narrative history and ensure that “West from Appomattox” is not accessible only for scholars. Rather...
Charbonneau said that regardless of any discrepancies, Barman’s paper will help advance astronomy by forcing a closer comparison between predictions of atmospheres on extrasolar planets with actual data gathered by observatories. CORRECTION: The April 13 news article "Water Found in Planet's Skies" incorrectly quoted astronomer Travis Barman. He said that Assistant Professor of Astronomy David Charbonneau had discovered an extrasolar planet's atmosphere, not that Charbonneau had discovered an extrasolar planet...
...fire. In the end, political consideration in the appointment of federal prosecutors is not only common, it's practically a Washington tradition. And though it would strengthen the Democrats' accusations of cronyism in the Bush Administration's handling of the Justice Department, any revelation short of evidence of actual obstruction of justice will be a welcome distraction from the new, much more troubling storyline that the U.S. attorney firings generated this week...