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...many families. Some live too far from a military base to take easy advantage of the benefits of military life. In Hammond, La., if Janet Wright wants to save on tax-free groceries at a military commissary while her husband serves in California, she has to load a cooler into her car and drive at least an hour. "What you save in tax-free," she says with a sigh, "you've just spent in gas." The families of activated reservists qualify for the same health plan as active-duty families, but that can mean finding new doctors and learning...
...America's favorite imports from Mexico is butterflies, especially the 300 million to 400 million monarchs that each spring and summer flutter across much of the U.S. and as far north as Canada in search of cooler weather. This year's migration is especially sweet. A devastating cold snap in January 2002 was estimated to have killed 75% of the monarchs that winter in the Transvolcanic Mountains of central Mexico, about 90 miles west of Mexico City, where they have inspired a growing tourism business. Lepidopterists had been worried that the butterfly population wouldn't bounce back...
...appeared unaware of the danger. The U.S. soldiers did not understand Arabic, but they did not need to - the enraged faces, the shouting and the fierce gesticulations were sufficient signal that they were not wanted. "Irjau!" "Go Back!" the demonstrators screamed, as they were restrained by a few cooler-headed men from within their ranks...
...yielded his website. And as for his pimping? Ali concedes, “The cell phone wasn’t really intended for pimping, so I don’t really know if that’s a valid claim. But my girlfriend definitely thinks it makes me cooler. I’ll take that...
...sprawling apparat of agents who carried out Saddam's repressions--maybe 5,000 in the various special security services--would be purged. But Iraq would still need an army to preserve a unitary state and prevent interference from its neighbors. Bush hard-liners have pushed for a complete housecleaning. Cooler heads have warned that if the army were gutted, the U.S. would face thousands of angry, unemployed soldiers and have no competent forces to help police the country...