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BOCA RATON, Fla.--"The last mission of Vietnam War veterans ended on Nov. 3, at 2:08 p.m. Eastern Time, when John Kerry conceded the presidential race to George W. Bush," announced James Warner, a lawyer who was a Marine pilot in Vietnam and spent five years and five months in Hanoi as a prisoner of war. On Saturday night, Mr. Warner gave a "debriefing" on the role that two controversial groups of veterans played in raising doubts about John Kerry's fitness to serve as commander in chief. His audience consisted of attendees at Restoration Weekend, an annual gathering of political activists...

PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA scientists said Thursday they may send the Opportunity rover on a one-way trip to the depths of a crater on Mars so the robot can finish out its days studying stacks of layered rock that may have formed long ago at the bottom of a salty extraterrestrial ocean. The multiple layers of bedrock that line much of the inner slope of Endurance crater stand in cliffs 16 to 33 feet tall in places. They are seen in a sweeping color panorama that NASA released Thursday at Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's the most spectacular view we've...