Word: seconded
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...such a foul-tempered, ferocious and smelly creature, the Tasmanian devil is beloved in its native Australia, where it is considered a symbol of the country's frontier toughness. (The dog-sized marsupial's second life as a Looney Tunes character hasn't hurt its popularity either.) But as fierce as it is, the devil - which is found only in the Australian island-state of Tasmania - is in danger of going extinct...
While these difficult contests kept most of the Crimson out of the win column, a couple of wrestlers proved their mettle. Sophomore Spencer DeSena (285) notched his second victory of the season and Hogue (8-6) continued to show flashes of his potential, earning a fall in just 2:27 against first-round opponent Mike Kelly before dropping a bruising contest to fourth-seeded Nick Marable of Missouri...
...training team inside a checkpoint in Helmand Province. But Grenier says that given the breadth and depth of the CIA's operations in Afghanistan, the death toll among employees has been "almost miraculously light." He adds: "Fate may have caught up with us today." The Khost death toll is second only to the record for the number of CIA staffers killed in a single day. On April 18 1983, eight members of the Agency were killed when the US Embassy in Beirut was blown up by a Hizballah suicide bomb. A retired officer who was then in active service says...