 Margie Black had wanted to enter the military as a teenager, but having her first child at 19 put off her ambitions.So when she learned the Army raised its enlistment age, Black, now a 41-year-old grandmother from West Columbia, Texas, didn't hesitate to join. The decision took "about 30 seconds," she said.On Friday, Pvt. Black worked on her marksmanship skills here, while her 21-year-old daughter was at Army basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo."I'm taking it one day at a time," Black said. "If I do that, I can handle it."Older soldiers like her are showing up more often at Army training bases across the country since Congress gave the service approval earlier this year to raise its enlistee age limit, which had been 35, to just under 42 years....
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 Fox News Producer Resigns Over Middle East Coverage |
Two weeks ago, two producers working for Fox News in Amman, Jordan resigned in protest of the network's coverage. In their resignation letter, Serene Sabbagh and Jomana Karadsheh wrote "We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that." We go to Amman to speak with producer Serene Sabbagh. [includes rush transcript] As the ceasefire in Lebanon enters its third day, the Middle East crisis continues to be one of the top news stories in the US press. But the coverage of the conflict in the corporate media has come under criticism from some quarters. Two weeks ago, two producers working for Fox News in Amman Jordan resigned in protest of the network's coverage. In their resignation letter, Serene Sabbagh and Jomana Karadsheh wrote "We can no longer work with a news organization that claims to be fair and balanced when you are so far from that." They went on to write "Not only are you an ...
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/16/148232
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Editor - 01:03:00 08-19-06
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| Two Coast Guard divers die in Arctic Ocean |
SEATTLE Two divers aboard a Seattle-based Coast Guard ship -- the icebreaker Healy -- died during a routine dive operation in the Arctic Ocean about 500 miles north of Barrow, Alaska.The Coast Guard says the cause of the deaths is being investigated.The victims are identified as 30-year-old Lieutenant Jessica Hill, of St. Augustine, Florida, and 26-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Steven Duque, of Miami.The Coast Guard says they entered the water yesterday afternoon to examine the ship's rudder, which is done often as it operates in Arctic ice....
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Editor - 00:52:00 08-19-06
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| FDA orders body parts harvesting company shut down |
Health officials ordered a North Carolina company that collected human body parts for transplant to shut down Friday after inspectors found violations that posed a threat to human health.The Food and Drug Administration said it ordered Donor Referral Services to cease all manufacturing and to retain all cadaver tissues, following June inspections of the company in Raleigh. The company collected tissue for other firms that later processed it for transplantation.The inspections found "serious deficiencies" in how the company screened donors and kept records, the FDA said. The FDA said it does not know of any cases of infection in people who received donor tissue harvested by the company.All tissue products the company took from cadavers have been recalled, although some already have been transplanted, FDA spokesman Paul Richards said. It wasn't immediately clear how many people received tissue harvested by the company....
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/18/body.parts.ap/index.html
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Editor - 22:51:00 08-18-06
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| UN warns of growing Darfur crisis |
The United Nations has said it is "extraordinarily concerned" about the situation in Sudan's Darfur region. Discussions have been taking place at the UN in New York about sending a major peacekeeping force there. UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown said "something very ugly was brewing" and the humanitarian and security situation was deteriorating. Britain and the US have introduced a UN draft resolution authorising deployment of at least 17,000 UN peacekeepers. With the attention of the world focused on the situation in Lebanon, UN officials are anxious not to lose sight of the on-going violence in Darfur, the BBC's Mike Sergeant reports from the UN in New York. Sudan's government and the pro-government Arab militias are accused of war crimes against the region's black African population, although the UN has stopped short of calling it genocide. More than 2m Sudanese have fled their homes and tens of thousands have been killed in the three-year conflict....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5265732.stm
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| Israeli aircraft attack eastern Lebanon: source |
Israeli aircraft fired several rockets at a Hizbollah stronghold in eastern Lebanon early on Saturday, a Lebanese security source said. Warplanes and helicopters attacked at dawn unidentified targets around the village of Bodai, west of the ancient city of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley. The source said Israeli commandos landed by helicopter in the area for a brief period. An Israeli army spokesman said the army was checking the report. Hizbollah television later reported its guerrillas clashed with Israeli commandos near Bodai and forced them to fly out under the cover of air strikes.The security source said the aircraft bombed roads leading to the village and a hillside to the west. Such an attack would be the first since a U.N. truce ended 34 days of fighting between Israeli forces and Hizbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon....
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