Word: unknowns
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...parents in attendance couldn't help laughing a bit at these proud ranks being hobbled by a lone hat. But as I watched, I finally figured it out: these things that West Pointers do--parading in unyielding formation, shining already gleaming boots, enlisting to sacrifice their lives on some unknown and unloved territory far from home--are done not out of foolishness but out of faith. They have faith that American values and resourcefulness do not lend themselves to meaningless death...
...suddenly announced that 14 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists had been shipped from mysterious overseas locations to the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was the first White House confirmation of a secret CIA-operated network of overseas prisons, places where unorthodox methods of interrogation were not unknown. "Were it not for this program," Bush said, referring to the secret prisons and the things done there, "al-Qaeda and its allies would have succeeded in launching another attack against the American homeland...
...said the matter had been dropped - although they may try to find the person who leaked a 911 report stating that a Dallas Fire and Rescue team had been called out at 7:51 p.m. Tuesday for an "attempted suicide" by a 32-year-old who had "ingested an unknown large quantity of Rx pain medication." Police arrived to find Owens, who was not named in the report, being put in an ambulance headed to nearby Baylor Medical Center. He was released Wednesday and the hospital refused to comment, citing privacy laws...
...walking shark may sound like a mutant nightmare, but the creature's discovery was a scientific dream. The epaulette shark-actually a shy, 1-m-long bottom-feeder-is one of more than 50 species of fish, shrimp and coral previously unknown to science that researchers from the environmental NGO Conservation International (CI) reported discovering off the Bird's Head peninsula of Indonesia's Papua province. Last year, a CI team uncovered dozens of new bird and plant species in Papua's Foja Mountains. This time, the group's study of the region's equally rich waters left its marine...
...other hand, the younger Ford brother, an Unknown Quantity if there ever was one, has surprised everyone with two consecutive strong showings - in a radio interview and in a health-care debate last week where he put in an well-prepped performance. Jake Ford and the Republican White appeared but Cohen, being feted at a local fund-raiser by celeb Cybill Shepherd, skipped the event. As blogger Matthews headlined in his latest post: "Jake Ford May Not Be A Joke After...