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Battling to hold on to his job, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz said misleading information has been circulating over his involvement in a huge pay increase awarded to a close female friend. “I feel, however, that this has left a vacuum, which has largely been filled by misleading information” and conceded the 109 pages of documents about the controversy released by the board are “a lot to wade through for significant facts so I would like to call your attention to a number of them." Wolfowitz included a link to the package of documents, as did a posting on the...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service, September 8, 2005) – Soldiers of the 13th Corps Support Command from Fort Hood, Texas, are deploying to New Orleans this week in support of Joint Task Force Katrina. The COSCOM will be joining units from the 82nd Airborne Division, 1st Cavalry Division, 4th Infantry Division and the Iwo Jima Amphibious Readiness Group. About 41,500 National Guard personnel are on duty in the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Almost 17,500 active-duty personnel are on ships or on the ground in the region, DoD officials said. Army Reserve also deploying More than 220 Army Reserve Soldiers have...

Mars closest to Earth in nearly 60,000 years The wandering of the planets is bringing Mars closer to Earth than at any time in nearly 60,000 years. Just 34.6 million miles of space will separate the two planets on August 27. Mars was five times as distant just six months ago, and won't be as close again until August 28, 2287. Already, Mars has begun to loom large in the late evening sky, its rusty twinkle apparent in the south east. Aldo Vitagliano, of the University of Naples in Italy, calculates that Mars has not had as close a brush...