| Radioactive Ammunition Fired in Middle East May Claim More Lives Than ...
The U.S. has an estimated 1.5 billion pounds of it, sitting in hazardous waste storage sites across the country. Meaning it is plentiful and cheap as well as highly effective. Reed says he unknowingly breathed DU dust while living with his unit in Samawah, Iraq. He was med-evaced out in July 2003, nearly unable to walk because of lightning-strike pains from herniated discs in his spine. Then began a strange series of symptoms he'd never experienced in his previously healthy life. At Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C, he ran into a buddy from his unit. And another, and another, and in the tedium of hospital life between doctor visits and the dispensing of meds, they began to talk. "We all had migraines. We all felt sick," Reed says.
Upscale new Centex neighborhood set apart from rest of Carolina Bay
Mention the Carolina Bay development, and people familiar with it might cite the main, lighted entrance off U.S. Highway 17 or that the 1,800-home village stretches from Savannah Highway to Glenn McConnell Parkway. But they may not realize that just one neighborhood at the present time can be reached via Glenn McConnell. It is Essex at Carolina Bay, which at least for now is not connected to the rest of the community. .
Religious bigotry factor in politics
In South Carolina, the conservatives couldn't decide whether it was better to vote their religion or their politics, giving McCain the win.Florida came up. The press had anointed McCain the man, a winner, a hero. Giuliani, who expected to come into Florida as the press's favorite child, had now been eclipsed by McCain. He was now "the loser," who miscalculated. Even though Huckabee got less than half the votes of Romney, if Romney could have just picked up 37 percent of Huckabee's voters, he would have beaten McCain. Remember the surveys which found that about half of Protestants had an unfavorable view of Mormons, and Huckabee already had shown a talent for exploiting this bigotry.On Super Tuesday, West Virginia was reported early. Romney won the popular vote, but didn't get enough to take the state by primary rule.McCain and Huckabee's campaigns huddled behind closed doors and McCain threw his voters over to Huckabee, giving him the state.Why? Because they both despise Romney.
Women’s Center demands policy overhaul, rebuke
While I'm not sure I agree with all of the reported recommendations (particularly the part about Zeta Psi members going before ExComm), this is certainly a more appropriate and useful response to the incident than the initial "This time we sue!" outcry followed by the outright insulting and counterproductive "You're either with us or you're for rape!" (and, to be fair, the opposite "You silly bitches need to lighten up!") rhetoric that followed it on these and other pages. However, I am willing to do for the Women's Center what they seem unwilling to do in regards to the Zeta Psi members involved: forgive them for their hot-headed moment of stupidity and inappropriateness and rightfully acknowledge the fact that they're taking substantive (if, in my personal opinion, somewhat misguided) steps to improve campus life for women.
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