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...They haven't eaten a Westerner for 40 years." Reg Barker, travel guide for a competition by British magazine Zoo Weekly. The winner will be sent with Barker to Papua New Guinea to live for two weeks with a tribe of cannibals
Audrey Buxton and her husband Sergeant Ronald (Reg) Buxton, talk all the time. In between phone calls they use instant messaging, email, and even video conferencing so that he can see the new baby--connections unimaginable to previous generations of couples separated by American wars. But for all that communication, there's a lot that doesn't get said...
...does not know about the raids and weapons seizures her husband's platoon regularly carries out. When asked how she was affected by the death of the unit's commander, she draws a blank. Her husband had been in the humvee when Second Lieut. Ben Colgan was hit, but Reg has never mentioned the attack. "There are certain things you just don't talk about," Audrey says. "When he gets back, he'll talk about what he feels like talking about...
...husband is not the only one in the military," Audrey says, balancing her sleeping baby on her shoulder. "It's the whole family." She was devastated that Reg would not be home for Jared's birth, but she buried that sadness for the sake of her newborn and her son Brendon, 7. When he asks where Daddy went, she tells him, "He's helping the other kids in Iraq because they don't have all the things we have." She and Brendon recently collected some of his toys to donate to an orphanage in Iraq. "That really helped because...
...leaf from the Microsoft playbook: getting bigger, with less competition, is better. Although a combined Oracle-PeopleSoft would not rival SAP's user base, it would be in a more competitive position--and create an ever wider market for Oracle Database. "[Ellison] doesn't need PeopleSoft's products," says Reg King, an analyst for WR Hambrecht & Co. "But what's wrong with buying its customers...