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What went wrong at Aberdeen Proving Ground's Super Pond?
Shaped like a teardrop and carved out of the eastern bank of the Bush River, the UNDEX Test Facility at Aberdeen Proving Ground has earned the nickname "Super Pond" for its unusual properties. Viewed from above, the man-made pond looks much darker...
Tags: Key West, Heart Attack, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Engineering, Science and Technology
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Building bridges between Mexican and Mexican American art
Mexican art and Mexican American art often have treated each other more like strangers or distant cousins than like the fraternal twins they really are. In the United States, apart from in California and the Southwest, many museums and art professionals...Tags: Nobel Prize Awards, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Museum of Modern Art, Science and Technology, Arts
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Who's to blame for our politics? Don't ask
There is a classic "Doonesbury" cartoon, published soon after the Vietnam War ended, in which the antiwar activist Mark Slackmeyer is arguing with his pro-war father. They go back and forth, each blaming the other's politics for everything that's wrong in...Tags: Iran, Gun Control, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Abraham Lincoln, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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This weekend: 'Mad Men' returns; Melissa McCarthy hosts 'SNL'
Staff writerThe Final Four will be the biggest sporting event this weekend, but the entertainment industry has some big events, too: 1. Has Don Draper lost his mojo? "Mad Men" sets off that alarm when season six starts at 9 p.m. Sunday on AMC. The advertising drama...Tags: Lady Antebellum (music group), Katie Couric, Eric Church, Michael Feinstein, Television Industry
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Forget the revolution, there's a home game
I grew up in the 1950s in a sports-deprived area of southeast Georgia. Except for a not-so-close and generally unnoticed Georgia Florida league baseball farm team, there was no major league baseball, football or basketball. Sports meant cow pasture...
Tags: Sociology, Sports, Johns Hopkins University, Culture, Rentals
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Sequester vs. social justice: What would RFK do?
With the sequester now beginning, I find myself thinking about Robert F. Kennedy -- and 46 years ago, when I was an intern in his Senate office. The nation was going through a difficult time in 1967. America was deeply split over civil rights and the...Tags: Mitt Romney, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, International Military Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Letters: Worked up over defense claims
Re “Obama's dangerous experiment,” Opinion, Feb. 28 Rep. Howard P. “Buck” McKeon (R-Santa Clarita), the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, fails to mention that he himself voted for the “sequester” in...Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Republican Party, Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics
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Hagel suggests thinning the top ranks
WASHINGTON -- Chuck Hagel was taking questions at Fort McNair on Wednesday after his first major speech as defense secretary when a man rose to ask about his recent comments on North Korea. "I was misquoted again," Hagel blurted out, without saying what...
Tags: Iran, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hamid Karzai, North Korea, Military Equipment
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George R. Bartles, 82
George Richard Bartles, 82, of Hagerstown, Md., died Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Golden Living Center. Born March 12, 1931, in Hagerstown, he was the son of the late Herman S. and Mary Catherine Hamby Bartles. He was preceded in death by his first wife,...Tags: International Military Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Korean War (1950-1953), Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), American Legion
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'Gatekeepers' a powerful film about terrorism
“The Gatekeepers” offers an informative yet impassioned look at the tensions that have made the two-state solution — in which Israelis and Palestinians would live as neighbors, not adversaries — an elusive goal. Director Dror...Tags: Israel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Errol Morris, Palestine, Entertainment
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Movie secrets are there, in the script!
You know what "Star Wars" is about? I mean, really about? Vietnam. It's a critical allegory of the war: The Rebels are the scrappy Viet Cong, hastily assembled, devoted and relentless; the Empire is the American military, tripped up by an enemy using...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Easy Rider (movie), Sean Connery, Music, Columbia College Chicago
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Letters: The tragedy of the Iraq war
Re "Iran appears the victor in postwar Iraq," March 29 In 1991, the first President Bush, a decorated World War II combat veteran, was content to simply drive Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait. Iraq was left militarily capable of opposing its...Tags: Iran, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Armed Conflicts, Government, Iraq
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