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...Third World. It's just disgraceful.' CAROLINE O'ROURKE, an Irish tourist stranded along with 20,000 other travelers at Los Angeles International Airport on Aug. 12 because of a computer glitch. Passengers on more than 40 planes spent several hours stuck on the runways...
Those benefits are also a good reason for National Guard members to keep renewing their commitments. Under the current G.I. Bill, Guard members and reservists who have spent two years in Iraq or Afghanistan get $860 a month in tuition assistance if they attend college full time (compared with the $1,075 a month that active-duty veterans receive), but this benefit ends the moment they leave the Guard. Bush also argues that reservists don't need as much help transitioning to civilian life. "They can go back to their jobs, but an active-duty member is really changing careers...
While you aspire to your six-pack abs, your miracle diet, your glamorous life in rehab, my supermarket checkout time is spent in a world without pretense. It's a world where we good, simple men have to prepare for danger lurking from aliens, protect an Elvis who is reassuringly ALIVE! but still eating poorly, and be aware that Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein (also ALIVE!) are involved in a tumultuous, shaved-ape-adopting love affair in France. The Weekly World News fulfilled my reporter fantasies by ignoring the facts and my reader fantasies by doing it with very...
That's hardly reassuring to parents who last year spent $200 million on the Baby Einstein series. They might consider instead the advice of the American Academy of Pediatrics, which recommends that infants under 2 not watch anything on a screen and just interact with their parents...
...callused heels and memories of original sins, a first beer smuggled behind the grandstand, cigarettes sneaked in the woods, curfews broken because it's too hot to sleep. The flip side of summer freedom is anarchy, the structures of school and work melted into casual Fridays and long weekends spent playing on grass now baked to beige by drought, if it has not been drowned by this summer's biblical floods...