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IEDs have killed 48.5% of the 3,270 U.S. troops killed in action in Iraq. Finding - and disarming - such roadside bombs before they detonate is one way to curb such bloodshed. "You send out a robot to interrogate these things to see if it is, in fact, a roadside bomb or if it's just trash," Army Colonel John Castles of the 82nd Airborne's 2nd Brigade Combat Team said from Iraq last week. "They're a huge benefit to what we're trying...
...more emasculated, boys became more confused. The education system too shifted toward favoring girls and feminist culture, until girls were doing better in school than boys. Fortunately, enough boys seem to survive these disadvantages to take their appropriate place in society as adults. Despite feminist assertions and much "affirmative action," the vast majority of prominent leaders and outstanding exponents of "hard" sciences like physics remain males. Bill Martin, Valentine, New South Wales...
...think this report makes it so explicitly clear what the impact of not taking action is and so we have a real obligation to act on it,” Kagi said...
...turned more than a few heads in June when the United Nations' World Heritage Committee, which monitors the globe's important natural and cultural sites, removed the Everglades from its endangered list at the behest of the U.S. Department of the Interior. The circumstances behind the action have infuriated Florida Democrats and environmentalists - and cast more suspicions on the Bush Administration's penchant for bending science to suit its politics...
...This action is unacceptable," Florida's Democratic Senator, Bill Nelson, wrote this month to Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, adding that it "warrants [the] removal" of one of Kempthorne's top officials. But the Administration insists Nelson and Everglades activists are the ones putting politics over empirical evidence - and at the expense of poorer countries that are trying to save important natural resources more endangered than the Everglades...