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When politicians usually travel to Iraq, they go on "fact-finding missions" and are photographed shaking hands with U.S. troops. Arizona Rep. Jonathan Paton is going to fight. The 35-year-old is a 1st Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves and a freshman Republican state representative for District 30, which extends from parts of Tucson to the Arizona-Mexico border. Paton, who is not married but has a girlfriend, will leave for Iraq at the beginning of September and will return in mid- to late-January. While he is in the war zone, he will miss the primary election...
...Take the Honors Route Big state schools trying to attract top students are increasingly establishing honors colleges. These schools within schools often feel like cloistered liberal-arts colleges but still have access to the superior resources of a large research university. The University of Arizona Honors College offers its students special dorms, advisers and courses. Another upside is that while you're getting a more personalized education, you still have the chance to watch your school win a football game every once in a while...
...while politicians debate exactly how to deploy the devices, police and prosecutors are embracing them as a revolutionary tool. And in at least 19 states, judges have admitted the data as evidence in criminal trials. In Arizona, a Roman Catholic bishop was convicted in a hit-and-run accident after his car's black box showed that he had braked before impact, indicating that he had seen the pedestrian. A Massachusetts woman was sentenced to two years in prison after her SUV skidded on ice and hit a tree, killing her passenger. The car's recorder proved she was traveling...
...word out to kids at an early age, the EPA has shipped free SunWise kits to more than 13,500 elementary and middle schools. Arizona last year started requiring its public schools to participate in the program, which explains UV risks and emphasizes the use of sunscreen. But to reach teens and pierce their aura of invincibility, dermatologists are getting a lot more graphic. Some visit schools to display photographs of people with seemingly normal complexions alongside pictures filtered to reveal how freakishly mottled their skin really is from UV damage. Others show close-ups of oozing moles...
...House Speaker Newt Gingrich are all expected to swoop in to smile, shake hands and maybe taste the fair's famed fried Twinkies. Also planning to visit Iowa in August: 2004 Democratic running mates John Kerry of Massachusetts and John Edwards of North Carolina, Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Sam Brownback of Kansas, New York Governor George Pataki and Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney...