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...Thursday, Army public affairs specialist Major James Crabtree, who is assigned to the 18th Airborne Corps at Ft. Bragg, which has responsibility for Cardona's unit, said that Cardona, is a military policeman whose "unit happens to be deployed to Iraq, so he went with them." Crabtree said the Army commander overseeing the transfer of Cardona and other members of his unit said "there were no issues associated with [Cardona's new] deployment." He added that although a military judge ordered a reduction in rank for Cardona following his court martial, Cardona has since regained his previous rank of Sergeant...
...Pentagon Thursday confirmed for the first time that Specialist Ahmed al-Taie, a reservist assigned to the Provincial Reconstruction Team Baghdad, has been "unaccounted for" since Oct. 23 at 4:30 p.m.; he is currently listed as "duty status whereabouts unknown." Family members of the 41-year-old Iraqi-American from Ann Arbor, Mich., say he was nabbed by a gang claiming to be from the Mahdi Army while he was on an unauthorized trip outside the fortified Green Zone to visit his wife in Baghdad...
Professor of Education Catherine Z. Elgin, a specialist in theories of knowledge, says that reality is based on what occurs independently of people and their reactions to these occurrences. But she says there is no way to prove that we do not currently exist in a “Matrix”-like reality, hooked up to machines and submerged in some foreign...
...Americans over 50 suffer from anorexia, therapists and rehabilitation centers that specialize in eating disorders report that every year, they're ministering to more middle-aged and older patients, mostly women. The condition strikes people across ethnic and economic lines. Says Margo Maine, a psychotherapist and an eating-disorder specialist based in West Hartford, Conn., and a co-author of The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to Be Perfect (Wiley; 2005): "Anorexia is an equal-opportunity disease...
...purpose that should define an act of heroism, not the saving of somebody's life coincident with saving your own - and certainly not the instinct for self-preservation. Bradley J. Hartman Havana, Florida, U.S. I very much appreciated Weisskopf's article and started to cry when I read about Specialist James Fair, the young man who suffered a brain injury, lost his eyesight and both hands. He weighs on my conscience because I support our mission. I have not reconciled myself to my responsibility for his injuries as an outspoken supporter of our liberation of Iraq. I have work...