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NEW YORK (AP) -- Prices for Treasury securities jumped Thursday, sending the yield on the two-year note to a record low, as investors rushed to U.S. government debt in search of safety. Stocks tumbled around the world on worries that the U.S. economy is weakening and that Europe's debt problems are getting worse. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 513 points, its biggest drop since December 2008. The yield on the two-year Treasury note fell to 0.26 percent, a record low. Late Wednesday it was 0.34 percent. Bond yields fall when demand for them increases. That means traders are willing...

Long separation to Texas, then Afghanistan will stress families When she learned her soldier husband was going to war, Cate Beech felt a clock start ticking inside her heart. When they wake in the morning, when they glance at each other over dinner, it constantly reminds her that their time together is running out. "I see couples arguing over little things and I think 'I don't have time for that,' " said Beech, 30, of Marana. "Deployment changes the way you think. You can't worry about the small things." The Beeches — Cate, Chief Warrant Officer Stephen Beech, a helicopter...