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...Those soldiers were restricted from front-line combat duty, but they played integral noncombat roles. Under enemy fire, they piloted amphibious truck units during perilous shore landings, unloaded and shuttled ammunition to the front lines, helped bury the dead, and weathered Japanese onslaughts on their positions even after the island had been declared secure. According to Christopher Moore, the author of a book about African-Americans' myriad contributions during World War II, "thousands" more helped fashion the airstrips from which U.S. B-29 aircrafts could launch and return from air assaults on Tokyo, about 760 miles northwest. Hosting that...
...Dead-End Investigation...
...part of an amparo complaint filed by Edita Burgos, a number of military officers have testified; all have denied military involvement in the kidnapping. Burgos continues to insist that the army orchestrated her son's disappearance. If he is still alive, she says she would like him released; if dead, she would like only to know where his body is buried...
...fried eggs, salted salmon and miso soup with tofu one morning before he heads off to work. Later that day he gets a call informing him that Kiyomi's car has mysteriously veered off the road and crashed into a telephone pole, and that she is now brain dead. From here the story unfolds backward, and clues reveal that something sinister took an interest in Kiyomi and Toshiaki long ago. We learn that Kiyomi attended a lecture on mitochondria as a university student and became bizarrely agitated when images of the organelles were shown ("too enraptured to notice that...
...tweezers." On the night of June 4, the 47-year-old Burmese was arrested at his Rangoon home, shortly after he led a group of volunteers on an aid-delivery mission to the Irrawaddy Delta, which was devastated last month by a cyclone that left 134,000 people dead or missing. Before the police took him away, Maung Thura told foreign media outlets that many of the places he visited in the delta had not received any relief supplies from the country's governing junta. He also poked fun at an article in the government mouthpiece, the New Light...