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...Most parents cannot afford decent child care. I spoke recently with a young father in Phoenix. He and his wife must both work to make ends meet. He told me what it felt like to put his five-week-old baby daughter in what he called a kennel: third-rate day care. It was all they could afford. They have no health benefits, and neither had the right to time off when their daughter was born. The worst part is that their situation is normal in this country. But the average European country now guarantees five months off with full...
Army regulations exclude women from combat duty, but that rule was stretched when 771 female soldiers took part in the invasion of Panama, including several MPs who were involved in firefights. One officer, Captain Linda Bray, directed her platoon against a Panamanian garrison at an attack-dog kennel. Though no Panamanians were killed, as was originally reported, shots were exchanged...
...kennel seemed an odd venue for a watershed event in U.S. military history. But when members of the 988th Military Police Company from Fort Benning, Ga., engaged Panamanian soldiers in a firefight at an attack-dog compound near Panama City, the American platoon was commanded by a woman: Captain Linda L. Bray, 29, of Butner, N.C. Bray, one of 771 Army women who took part in the Panama operation, had added a page to the annals of American warfare: for the first time women, who compose almost 11% of the U.S. armed forces, had engaged hostile troops in modern combat...
...proposal becomes part of the city code, no new pit bulls will be allowed on New York streets after the existing ones die. But opposition to any restriction on a specific breed of dog is likely to be strong. "It's an unworkable, untenable, unconstitutional idea," says American Kennel Club spokesman Alan Stern...
After the coach pulled Kennel from the game, the two exchanged words. Writer then told the sophomore to leave the field--and the team. Gardner, Castillo and Kennel will be off the team indefinitely...