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...verge of eliminating polio last year, when it reported just 66 cases of the disease, down from 1600 in 2002. This year, however, things have gone horribly wrong with India's polio elimination campaign; 325 cases have been reported already, and at least 23 of them have been fatal. What's caught people's attention is that 70% of those infected with polio this year are Muslim, even though Muslims account for only 13% of India's population. What's even stranger, and frightening, is the reason: some Muslims believe that the polio drops are part of a conspiracy...
...They bring the war home with them, but often they?re not the people they were when they left - once a civilian, now a killing machine. "There?s an old saying," Nguyen adds. "If you?re a good soldier, you?ll be a bad civilian." Sometimes the transition is fatal. When Jeff Lucey came back from Iraq, his loving family noticed the change, his withdrawal inside his troubled skull. Within a few months, he had put a loop in a garden hose and hanged himself. Only death ended his nightmares...
...Inside the building, a fierce gun battle left the suspect with fatal multiple gunshot wounds. The shooter was found with three firearms, including one automatic gun, Delorme said...
...British-built Slingsby T-3A Firefly was selected in 1992 to replace the T-41 aircraft. It was a more demanding plane, designed to weed out poor pilots. But after the three fatal crashes, the service grounded the planes in 1997. "The T-41 is your grandmother's airplane," Merrill McPeak, the general running the Air Force when the program began, told TIME several months later. "Our mission is to train warrior-pilots, not dentists to fly their families to Acapulco." But the Air Force disagreed, and ultimately ended the more demanding flight-training program that General McPeak had championed...
...TIME brought the matter to national attention to, but the Air Force this week concluded that's what its fleet of T-3 trainers really is. It made the decision to scrap the fleet altogether nine years after the Air Force grounded the planes in the wake of three fatal accidents - each of which killed a highly trained Air Force instructor pilot and a fledging Air Force pilot...