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...level of deficient performance." Still, that's just what the Navy did, forking over an additional $100 million to make it seaworthy after the Navy had taken delivery of the vessel from its builder, Northrop Grumman, in 2006. The service said it needed the new ship to replace an older one it was retiring and could finish the work more cheaply in its own shipyard. The Navy has blamed Northrop Grumman for poor work; the company has blamed the Navy for a constantly changing design, as well as Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf yards in which the ship...
What is the emotional difference between dropping of a baby and dropping off an older child? When a newborn or infant is abandoned in a hospital, there's a good chance that it isn't going to remember the experience. There's not going to be any significant consequences over the life of that child. However, when a teenager or a preteen is left at a hospital and abandoned in that way, they understand exactly what is going on. There is an extra level of trauma that is endured...
...American youth, immersed in a self-consciously and radically secular culture, especially at a place like Harvard, the precepts and promises of religion have diminished appeal. Limiting their perspectives to this world, youth understandably can see politics—once shorn of the ostensible cynicism of the older generations—as the catholicon of their...
...Primary-care physicians now have to add to their battery of tests - which include colonoscopy, PSA and breast exams - something for the asymptomatic older person for the prevention of heart disease that now has greater benefit than anything we have ever had in the past," says Weaver...
Amrozi bin Hasyim, his older brother, Mukhlas, and accomplice Imam Samudra were executed by firing squad five years after being convicted for the terrorist attacks that killed 202 people, many of them tourists, on the resort island. The three Indonesians, shot just after midnight, were the first to be put to death under the country's tough anti-terrorism law, after numerous appeals for leniency were rejected by the government. (See pictures of Suharto's Indonesia...