Word: vet
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would have been nice if the pre-vet club had still been around," Gordan says...
...startled. "I'm not a vet," she says. "I don't know much about influenza in animals." But she had never heard of H5 infecting humans. For it to do so now was surprising. Even impossible...
There's Jack, the prototypical World War II vet who's got a metal plate in his head, and Elaine, who got so wrapped up in the slot machines that she forgot to visit her kids on Christmas. And of course there's Ida, an aging widow who wears her finest gown and all of her jewelry to come play cards. Twice a month, I took my place among this vulgar spectacle to try my luck at Seven Card Stud or Texas Hold'em. My first few visits were far from pretty; not just a slow bleed of cash, more...
...then a 24-year-old Air Force Academy graduate, now rests beneath a sacred marble slab in the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. That possibility got a boost last week as veterans detailed their hunch that, through snafus and an eagerness to anoint a Vietnam-era vet as an unknown, the Pentagon ignored evidence that could have determined if the six bones buried at Arlington are Blassie's. The two World Wars and Korea generated thousands of unknown candidates for the tomb. But by Vietnam, improved forensic science had precluded nearly all anonymous KIAs. Pentagon officials note...
Iraq Blocks U.N. Inspectors Former Marine Captain Scott Ritter finds himself accused as a spy by Iraq. By targeting this Gulf War vet, Saddam may just have given the U.S. its first hero in the showdown...