Word: odd
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...recent murders of several women, allegedly by Army husbands who returned from the war in Afghanistan not long ago, confound any quick explanation. In all, four soldiers at the same base, Fort Bragg, near Fayetteville, N.C., are accused of killing their wives during the past seven weeks. The odd clustering of the murders, along with the recent Afghanistan service of three of the suspects, has some people wondering if there's a common thread--perhaps even the first signs of post-traumatic stress in this...
...dead. Even off the battlefield, military life is stressful, but men in the military have almost exactly the same rate of spousal abuse as civilians of the same age and demographic profile, according to Richard Heyman of the State University of New York. "I do think it's odd for there to be a concentration in one locale of homicides like this," says Deborah Tucker, co-chair of a Defense Department task force on domestic violence. "But if you think about it, we have 2,000 women killed every year in America [by partners or exes]. There's going...
...lone axe has been laid down on a barbecue, a gun hangs from a hook. A sign reads "No Loitering Allowed." A man peering from a car window looks like an escaping murderer; another lies face down on the concrete floor of a garage. Eggleston finds beauty in odd things such as the ceremonies of eating, turning salt shakers and ketchup bottles into family groups and exploring the contents of a freezer in 1971 (Frosty Acres Tasty Taters). From mountain majesties to frozen fries, this is a show no lover of photography should miss...
...Concord, Calif. After 37 years as a marketing executive at PG&E, Dillon enjoys a generous pension benefit and has personal assets of more than $1 million. He spent his first golden year exactly as he had envisioned--reading, playing some golf and, one by one, knocking off several odd jobs and improvements such as building a deck at his home. But then something he had not envisioned intruded on years of planning: he got bored. So he took a part-time job supervising tee times at a nearby golf club. "I just wanted something to do," Dillon explains...
...every day to the very well stocked Melrose branch of the New York Public Library, not far from where we lived in the Bronx. We spoke Yiddish at home. I had taught myself to read English when I was very small. To this day, my pronunciation is as odd as it is because I learned it through the eye rather than through...