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Currently, the brains at ThredUP are working on extending the services to military personnel. Who knows? Your sequins might just end up in Afghanistan sometime soon...
...mail sent to Scalise was returned by spokesman Timothy J. Williamson, who wrote in an e-mailed statement that this issue constituted a personnel matter and, therefore, deserved to be treated with respect to employees’ privacy...
...were laughing at me ... making me feel about three inches tall." That was the lament of Arthur Batchelor, a 20-year-old seaman seized in 2007 by Iranian guards in disputed territorial waters on the Iran-Iraq border and held for 12 days along with 14 other British service personnel. In a newspaper interview, Batchelor also confided that he'd "cried like a baby" during his captivity...
...Nobody expects overall troop numbers to be boosted any time soon. On the contrary, a January report by defense analyst Professor Malcolm Chalmers for the Royal United Services Institute predicts cuts of 20% to military personnel over the next six years. Political leaders justified the last cutback of this scale, the replacement of the British Army of the Rhine in 1994 by a standing force of less than half its size, as a "peace dividend" arising from the end of the Cold War. But with failed states on three continents giving cause for concern, the chance of a new peace...
...Army flew in 110 rescuers from the China International Search and Rescue Team, Xinhua reported. Hundreds of police and firefighters as well as 1,600 troops have also been sent to the disaster zone. Vice Premier Hui Liangyu, who was dispatched to the disaster zone from Beijing, urged rescue personnel "to do everything possible to save people in distress," the Qinghai provincial government reported on its website. "You must fully believe that there are still people alive. Now, 24 hours after the earthquake, you must grasp this golden period to save people...