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...commit to memory passages ranging from Psalm 23 to Shakespeare to Paul Laurence Dunbar's poetry. Education remained a theme in Campbell's life. She taught elementary school for five years before turning fully to writing but never truly left her earlier profession. Her lyrical works were laden with of-the-moment social lessons--1994's Brothers and Sisters explored racial tension in post-- Rodney King L.A. In her books, she said, "I try to impart a message...
...decades, video gamers had little more to fear than “joystick elbow,” eyestrain, bad posture, or keyboard-induced carpal tunnel syndrome. Some flashy graphics sequences posed threats to epileptics, but that’s nothing new; many effects-laden television programs boast that dubious distinction...
...special forces, backed up by CIA agents and officers, have little information on bin Laden's whereabouts despite the $25 million bounty on his head. The last time they came close to him was in late 2001, when he apparently escaped a tightening noose as he fled his mountain redoubt at Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan...
...Laden remains a very significant person," U.S. Army Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, the top American officer in Afghanistan, said Tuesday at the Pentagon. "It's critical for, I think, all of the world that bin Laden - a man who has committed atrocities that have affected our nation at great loss of lives, at great loss of treasure - that this man is one day brought to justice and he is either captured or he's killed." Eikenberry said getting him - dead or alive - "remains as much of a priority as it has since the United States of America was struck...
Unfortunately, even killing or capturing bin Laden isn't likely to break the Taliban's and al-Qaeda's grip in the remote region. "The loss of a series of al-Qaeda leaders since 9/11 has been substantial, but it's also been mitigated by what is frankly a pretty deep bench of low-ranking personnel capable of stepping up to assume leadership positions," General Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, told the Senate Armed Services Committee, on November 15. "Though a number of these people are new to the senior management, they're not new to jihad...