Word: todays
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...People grew a lot more aware after the twoincidents last year. I think awareness is thewhole purpose of why I'm here today," Zoba said...
Instead of increasingly relying on high school dropouts, a senior lawmaker influential on military matters wants the Pentagon to consider enlisting the disabled. In today's increasingly tech-driven military, Representative DUNCAN HUNTER believes that many people with disabilities are well suited for the services' growing number of jobs sitting behind the console or at the computer. "If we don't start tapping that very important pool, we're not going to have enough soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen to make our military run," says Hunter, a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee and a veteran...
That sort of p.r. is helping reverse years of declining membership. It is about 5,000 today, in contrast to a high of 5 million in the 1920s. But the Klan added 36 new chapters last year, for a total of 163, according to the Montgomery, Ala.-based Klanwatch, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Similarly, the neo-Nazi National Alliance--headed by William Pierce, author of the race-war fantasy The Turner Diaries--grew by 13 chapters...
Billie and Ed Miles, two former San Antonio school administrators, moved to New Braunfels in 1992 to open a B&B as a "small retirement project." Today they run the Gruene Homestead Inn, a collection of eight restored buildings in one of the town's historic neighborhoods. "This is a very warm and open community," says Billie, attributing that openness to the region's tourism. "This is like a small town, and you don't feel like you are stuck in a senior-citizen's community...
...That was a year ago. Today customers are flocking to Chung as word of his tasty food spreads. Friends who once scoffed at his restaurant plans want advice on how to set up their own catering joints. The definition of what's respectable in South Korea has changed fast since economic collapse punched a hole in the Korean Dream. When the country was vaulting to economic success, parents aspired to get their sons into white-collar jobs at giant chaebol, or conglomerates, like Samsung. A year of life under the yoke of a humiliating $58 billion bailout from the International...