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...Gist: If you don't want your kid to join the military, have them read the latest report on the health of Gulf War veterans, released by a congressionally mandated panel earlier this week. The 465-page study details how the U.S. military mistakenly poisoned its own soldiers with two chemicals during Operation Desert Storm, leading to a number of debilitating symptoms - from chronic muscle pain and digestive problems to memory loss and persistent skin lesions - now collectively known as Gulf War illness (GWI). Worse still, the panel found that millions of dollars in funding for GWI research had been...
...Inside, however, lies the unexpected: page after page of fascinating elucidation of a nation and people that desperately require understanding. Iran is a young country. Some 75% of Iranians are under 35, and it is this demographic that is responsible for the wit and poignancy that make Transit Tehran so absorbing. It has come at a cost: some contributors were jailed during the volume's preparation, hounded by a state that brooks no threat to its cultural authority...
...many blogs does the world need? There is already blog gridlock. When the Washington Post editorial page started a blog before this year's conventions, participants (I was one) were told: Don't forget that the Post political staff also has a complete set of blogs. It wasn't clear what we were supposed to do about this, but the implication was that there are only so many aperçus to go around, so don't be greedy...
...Brief History Of: The Secret Service PAGE...
...extermination of piracy is necessary for maintaining international peace and trade. The United States’ first venture into foreign military intervention occurred when Jefferson sent the navy to fight Barbary pirates in 1801. We should take a page out of Jefferson’s book: A modern naval expedition freed from ineffective international law needs to be sent to wipe out these criminals...