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...March 23, just days into the sixth year of the Iraq war, the U.S. death toll reached 4,000 when a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad killed four soldiers. A breakdown of American casualties...
...Third is the cost to “reset” the military. Beyond its high human costs, the war has exacted a significant toll on transports and equipment. Vehicles and weapons are being used up at 10 times the peacetime rate. They are not being replaced nearly as quickly. On the personnel side, the military has lowered standards for physical fitness and education; even felons have become soldiering material as the armed forces pursues basic recruiting targets. The Army is paying huge re-enlistment bonuses in an effort to retain captains, who are quitting at alarming rates. It will...
...Despite these precautions, the death toll for journalists is higher in this war than in any other conflict, according to the non-partisan press foundation, Freedom Forum...
...boom period. House prices shot up in the early 2000s, and Modesto became a bedroom community for the Bay area. But then the subprime mortgage crisis hit hard: in February alone, Stanislaus County had 1,630 foreclosure filings, third highest in the nation. The physical toll it is taking on this hub nestled amid the almond groves is staggering. Huge, dusty stretches of subdivision developments lay untouched or partially built as developers run out of money...
...situation is already taking a toll on insurers, who have been forced to write down the value of their CDS portfolios. American International Group, the world's largest insurer, recently reported the biggest loss in the company's history largely due to an $11 billion writedown on its CDS holdings. Even Swiss Reinsurance Co., the industry's largest reinsurer, took CDS writedowns in the fourth quarter and warned of more to come in the first quarter...