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Choosing to photograph, choosing to publish, choosing to look
Before they started snapping pictures, the amateur photographers of the 82nd Airborne Division whose work was recently made famous by the Los Angeles Times had official business to transact: bombings to investigate, corpses to identify, biometric...
Tags: Photography and Video, Baltimore County, The Pentagon, Photography Supplies and Services, Music
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Hall of Fame year-by-year inductees
The Associated Press(BBWAA: Elected by the Baseball Writers Association of America; VC: Elected by the Veterans Committee; NL: Elected by the Veterans Committee based on Negro league career): 1936 -- BBWAA: Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth, Honus...Tags: Bill Veeck, Lou Boudreau, Tim Keefe, Kirby Puckett, Pee Wee Reese
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Weekend event: Drury U. Wildlife Art Show opens on Commercial Street
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The Drury on C-Street Gallery, 233 E. Commercial St., opens its first Invitational Wildlife Art Show on June 1 as a part of the C-Street Stroll. C-Street Stroll hours are from 6 - 9 p.m. The show, scheduled to be an annual event, will...Tags: James Stewart, Arts
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Leading the way in STEM education
The May 6 Daily Press editorial ("Fuel for a rising tide") noted that "to compete in a global economy, our public education system needs to include greater emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math ("STEM") education." The editorial then...Tags: Science, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), High Schools, Thomas Nelson Community College, University of Virginia
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U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers
Los Angeles TimesThe paratroopers had their assignment: Check out reports that Afghan police had recovered the mangled remains of an insurgent suicide bomber. Try to get iris scans and fingerprints for identification. The 82nd Airborne Division soldiers arrived at the...Tags: John Kirby, Afghanistan, Wars and Interventions, Rebellions, Bombings
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Obama condemns conduct of troops who posed with dead Afghans
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE – President Obama has been briefed on a series of photos published in the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, and finds the conduct of troops who posed with the bodies of dead Afghans "reprehensible," White House spokesman Jay...
Tags: Jay Carney, Newspapers, U.S. Army, Afghanistan, Armed Forces
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Karzai Condemns Photos of U.S. Troops with Insurgents' Bodies
CNNKABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzaion Thursday condemned photos of U.S. soldiers posing with bodies of suspected insurgents as he called for "an accelerated and full transition of security responsibilities to Afghan forces." Karzai, who...Tags: CNN (tv network), Leon Panetta, Kandahar Massacre (2012), Afghanistan, Rebellions
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Titanic: For many victims, their final resting place is in Halifax, Canada
Halifax, Canada — A cold wind ripped through Fairview Lawn Cemetery. Then came the frigid rain. In a minute, I was thinking, the headstones will be shivering. "Now," said Blair Beed, my guide, "imagine how it would have been in those lifeboats....
Tags: Movies, James Cameron, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Sinking of the Titanic (1912), Dining and Drinking
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Portugal won't extradite fugitive killer George Wright to U.S.
Nation NowEscaped hijacker and killer George Wright wins his bid to remain in Portugal. A court in Portugal has rejected the U.S.' request to extradite him.... -
NJ Fugitive On The Run For 40 Years Captured In Europe
A fugitive who was convicted of murder and hijacking a US airliner decades ago is back in police custody after more than 41 years on the run, authorities said.
George Wright, who was found guilty of murdering a man during a gas station robbery in Wall,...Tags: Murder, Aircraft Hijacking, Punishment, Portugal, FBI
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Portugal refuses to extradite American fugitive George Wright
World NowAmerican fugitive George Wright has been freed by a Portugese court after it refused a U.S. request to extradite the convicted murderer to complete his 15- to 30-year sentence for the shooting death of a gas station employee during a robbery the day after... -
WVU edges rival Pitt, 21-20
AP Sports WriterMORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Shawne Alston rushed for two second-half touchdowns, including a 1-yarder with 6:10 left, and West Virginia came from 10 points down to beat Pittsburgh 21-20 on Friday night. West Virginia sacked Tino Sunseri 10 times,...Tags: West Virginia Mountaineers, South Florida Bulls, Pittsburgh Panthers, Football, Big East Conference
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