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Each year on Nov. 11, the U.S. celebrates Veterans Day in honor of those who have fought - and those who have died - for the country. Wreath-laying ceremonies take place at cemeteries across the land, including at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Though the commemoration officially began in Arlington as Armistice Day, with the burial of an anonymous World War I soldier at the Tomb of the Unknowns in 1921, the occasion didn't become a federal holiday in the U.S. until 1938. (In 1954 its name was changed to Veterans Day.) Accounts differ on when the tradition began...
...performed research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va., and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt...
...encouraging to see so many different faiths represented here and delivering the same message,” said David Lanskov, who runs the global warming web page at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church in Arlington...
...What would you do to reform health care? -Leslie Gillis, Arlington, Mass. I'd get the government out of the way. It's so important that the maximum number of people get the maximum amount of care. The harder the subject is - the more difficult, the more complicated - the more you need the marketplace...
...heckling isn’t just limited to senators. In Arlington, Va., protestors held signs: “Obama-cation Dumbing Down Students,’’ read one; “Obamacation. It takes the Village Idiot,” said another. This was eerily reminiscent of a bumper sticker from the Bush years, which read “There’s a village in Texas that’s missing its idiot.” However, the Republican response was ill-timed and counterintuitive. In the aftermath of bloopers like George...