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CALL OF DUTY 2 War: What is it good for? Apparently, inspiring relentlessly intense, astonishingly immersing video games. Slog and slug your way through the trenches, deserts and ruined cities of World War II while beautifully rendered snow and deadly Nazi grenades drop gently onto your helmeted, hunkered-down head. The Xbox 360's extra horsepower makes possible huge, frighteningly authentic battlefields and brutally unpredictable game play. You're never sure when a panzer will come charging right through that wall you're hiding behind...
...said, for battling the increasingly lethal insurrection. The success of elections will have a direct effect on last week's debate: How many U.S. troops should be in Iraq and for how long? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told Fox News Sunday that after the elections, the U.S. hopes to drop troop levels from 160,000 to about 138,000, with a target of 100,000 by the end of 2006. Elsewhere, NBC News' Tim Russert grilled Rep. John Murtha-the Pennsylvania Democrat and decorated Vietnam War veteran whose impassioned speech on Iraq sparked Friday's meltdown in the House...
...researchers at the Colorado Prevention Center and the University of Colorado. Investigators chose for comparison two areas that don't have smoke-free laws: the part of Pueblo county outside the city and an adjacent county. Although the number of heart attacks fell in both of those areas, the drop was small and not statistically significant...
...applicants sent in early admission applications. After Harvard reinstated its policy of single-choice Early Action—meaning that students who apply early to Harvard under the school’s nonbinding program cannot apply early to any other colleges—the College saw a sharp drop in the size of its early applicant pool, handling 3,889 applications in 2003 and 4,214 applications in 2004. Fitzsimmons said that the College has admitted just over 20 percent of the students who applied early during each of the past two years, but noted that “it?...
...survey, conducted annually by the Institute of International Education, found that foreign student enrollment in the United States dropped by 1.3 percent in 2004, following a 2.4 percent drop the year before...