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...Pentagon officials would not discuss exactly how many troops Eikenberry wants to add to the 18,000 U.S. troops already in Afghanistan, but estimates are that it could be several thousand. "There will be no decrease in U.S. forces and they could go higher," said Eikenberry. When asked by a reporter today if the U.S. military was too strained by Iraq and other commitments to send more troops to Afghanistan, Gen Peter Pace acknowledged that "any kind of deployment is going to add a short-term strain." But he said that a short-term increase in troops could actually mean...
...Shavers' college-age sister Nakita choked back tears Thursday as she addressed the crowd of several thousand marchers."What hurts me the most is the fact that all the positive roles my brother played in this city, in the recovery after Katrina, and the musical culture that he loved so much, he still wasn't exempt from the foolishness and the violence that's going on today...
...early 50s, it was hard for a movie producer not to notice Sofia Scicolone (or as she sometimes called herself, Sofia Lazzaro). She was the towering (5'9"), striking (those eyes! That neck!) creature who occasionally lounged topless in low-budget epics. She might have been one of a thousand pretty playthings a producer finds on the casting couch and discards when distracted by the next in line. But Loren knew she had something to put on screen besides a spectacular bosom: an actor's passion and skill, a worldly woman's generous, capricious wit. As for Ponti...
...raid came three weeks after several thousand Ethiopian troops, tacitly backed by the U.S., invaded the country to oust the Islamist forces that had seized control of Mogadishu six months earlier. Outgunned by the superior Ethiopian army, the Islamists deserted en masse, with a core group attempting to retreat into the thick forests near the Kenyan border. The Islamists' flight left them exposed, which may have helped the U.S. track their whereabouts and move in for the kill. Approval for the raid came from Somalia's Transitional Federal Government, which had held power for all of 11 days...
...cold hillside at the edge of western Wales' Cambrian Mountains, more than a thousand saplings, all planted in the last couple of months, are taking root. The trees are local - beech, ash, oak, alder and willow, among others - but the money behind them isn't. Green-minded airline passengers from as far away as the U.S. and New Zealand are stumping up $20 per plant, hoping the trees will absorb from the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to their share spewed out during a flight. To Ru Hartwell, project director of Treeflights.com, which offers the service...