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...provided sanctuary to the terrorists of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. A key element of Australia's contribution to that coalition - a role known as Operation Slipper - was the legendary Special Air Service Regiment. Based in Perth, the regiment is the Australian Army's most highly trained and best equipped unit. It's said to cost more than $A1 million to train one of the 100 or so fighting men who make up each of its three regular, or Sabre, squadrons; they are experts in parachuting, deep-sea diving and waterborne assault, and can handle a variety of complex...
Cowboy Troy's first single, I Play Chicken with the Train, which features Big & Rich, was not designed to put traditionalists at ease. On first listen, it's almost comically dissonant; a grimy lead guitar fights for control with a banjo as Troy's deep, rat-a-tat-tat delivery flies by. But it does grow on you and soon finds a stomping middle ground between the Sugarhill Gang and Charlie Daniels. In the online-opinion maelstrom, about 50% of people seem to enjoy their first exposure to hick-hop; the rest can safely be described as horrified...
...Funded by European food and drug companies and France's Ministry of Health, the program is designed to make healthy eating part of children's everyday lives - at school and at home. Nutritionists teach children from the age of 3 what, and how much, they should eat, and also train other teachers who can then incorporate the healthy-eating mantra into their classes. School lunches now replace unhealthy foods like French fries with vegetables such as beans. Children in the district also dig into a healthy preschool breakfast buffet intended to supplement the breakfast they ate - or sometimes...
...time, Pae's parents came to see a larger debt being repaid. "I came to this country with an empty fist," says Hyongchol. "But now we own a house, have two sons. We have enjoyed so much here, and I always have felt like I was riding on a train without a ticket." For a family that journeyed to this country for artistic freedom, it took a soldier of a son to finally pay the fare...
...hope that will give us something to train for,” Barringer said...