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There are about 70,000 Iraqis in the CLCs, armed and funded by the U.S. But the Iraqi government has agreed to eventually take over the program, said General Dubik, with the plan to vet and absorb about 30% into the Iraqi police or Iraqi military. So what about the roughly 50,000 that would leave unemployed? "The others will go into some other civil service corps, vocational training or other job-related training," said, Dubik. "That system is still in development." The question is, will the unintegrated CLCs hold on to their weapons and potentially cause havoc? Korb asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arming Iraq's Future Street Gangs? | 2/1/2008 | See Source »

...remembers this, but First Blood, the first Rambo movie, about a Vietnam vet with massive posttraumatic stress disorder who winds up shooting up a small American town, is an antiwar movie. The second Rambo?the glossy action movie loved by many, including President Reagan?is about a vet who goes back to Vietnam and wins, freeing a bunch of pows. The new Rambo is supposed to be back in the antiwar camp. "What I was trying to say is that nothing changes. The world will never come together and say we are one," Stallone says, smoking a cigar and wearing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stallone on a Mission | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

...stump speech railing against Romney. This was pretty shocking for a primary, where attacks tend to be muffled because the losers eventually support the winner. Huckabee was particularly miffed by Romney's ad about the pardons. He told the crowd the story of one pardon - an Iraq-war vet who came home, worked his way through college and wanted to become a police officer but couldn't because he had fired a BB gun at a friend when he was 13 years old. "Now, how many of you would have granted a pardon in that case? Raise your hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two Romneys | 1/2/2008 | See Source »

...with estate-quality wrought-iron fencing is located in a neighborhood of office parks, and resembles, inside, an upscale daycare center. The gift shop sells hemp dog collars, Outward Hound folding travel bowls, chews that act as doggy dental floss, and Santa-themed holiday pet bandanas. There's a vet clinic and an obedience school on site. In the brightly lit kennels, where a one-year-old fluffy little Bichon Frise mix might sit sweetly alongside an adorable stuffed gray monkey on a pink blanket in a two-room suite, you're already so charmed that it seems perfectly logical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Personality Test for Pets | 12/14/2007 | See Source »

...campaign is to get people off of dry food. The message of Cat Chat is: Think outside the bag. Dry food is kitty crack. It's addictive, and incredibly harmful to your cat. Of course, that goes counter to everything your vet tells you, and everything that advertising tells you. But when you start to feed cats wet food, their personalities will change, anywhere from 10% to 100%, toward affectionate and relaxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cat Wants You to Know | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

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