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As he steered his Straight Talk Express across the United States in recent weeks, Republican Sen. John McCain has tried to stay a-head of the immigration issue. But Friday the immigration issue delivered 36 or so heads to his Phoenix office — heads of lettuce, that is. McCain has been getting skewered in the media for comments earlier this month to a union group in Washington, D.C., that immigrants are taking jobs no one else wants, and offered them $50 an hour to pick lettuce in the Arizona sun for a summer, suggesting they couldn't do it. The senator didn't...

BAGHDAD (Army News Service, April 14, 2006) – In the Tigris River valley, Iraqi Army and Multi-National Division – Baghdad Soldiers discovered four weapons caches during a combined operation April 13. Soldiers from the 6th Iraqi Army Division and U.S. 22nd Infantry Regiment conducted a two-phase search in southern Baghdad April 10. During the first phase of the operation, Iraqi Soldiers found pre-made roadside-bombs encased in concrete. In the second phase, the Iraqi and MND-B Soldiers air assaulted into the area and found additional caches. The caches from both phases contained rocket propelled grenade rounds, machine guns, mortar rounds, landmines,...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2006 – "The world is changing because freedom is on the march. And we shouldn't be discouraged about ... short-term setbacks," President Bush told an audience in Tampa, Fla., today. That march began with the removal of the Taliban from Afghanistan, Bush said. It continues as democracy emerges in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq. "We have an opportunity to lay the foundation of peace for generations to come," he said. "Democracy can yield the peace we all want." The president had arrived in town earlier in the day to meet with senior leaders at nearby headquarters...

U.S.Army paratroopers with Company C, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, search for a weapons cache on the outskirts of Tall Afar, Iraq, Nov. 18, 2005. U.S. Army photo by 2nd Lt. Nathan Kish Paratroopers' Missions Yield Mixed Results The search for a man connected to insurgent activities was unsuccessful, but a search for a weapons cache yielded dozens of artillery rounds. By U.S. Army Pfc. James Wilt 82nd Airborne Division TALL AFAR, Iraq, Nov. 29, 2005 — U.S. Army paratroopers from Company C, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division conducted a raid...

Source: Ohio State University Date: 2003-11-07 Ice Cores May Yield Clues To 5,000-year-old Mystery COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The latest expeditions to ice caps in the high, tropical Peruvian Andes Mountains by Ohio State University scientists may shed light on a mysterious global climate change they believe occurred more than 5,000 years ago. They hope that ice cores retrieved from two tropical ice caps there, as well as ancient plants retrieved from beneath the retreating glaciers, may contain clues that could link ancient events that changed daily life in South America, Europe and Asia. Something happened 5,200 years ago that was...

<p>It's March 2000 all over again. But this time, the frenzied buyers aren't focusing on stocks.</p> <p>Spooked by the prospect of war and anxious for any semblance of safety, bond investors have bid up the price of 10-year Treasury notes, so that they yield just 3.57%.</p>

American spies yield to Blix over weapons By David Usborne in New York 22 December 2002 Hans Blix, the United Nations' chief weapons inspector, was preparing this weekend to begin a new, more invasive phase in the hunt for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, making use of intelligence from Washington and London, and new military hardware ranging from helicopters to flying drones. The stepped-up effort, involving more than 100 inspectors in Iraq, will be in stark contrast to the inspections of the past few weeks, which have been short of manpower and equipment. If the past weeks have been a...