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Missouri S&T students help pioneer drone technology
dhodges@ky3.comROLLA, Mo. -- The U.S. military is relying more on drones to help track down the enemy or strike targets. While they can sometimes be controversial, they might also be used in humanitarian efforts. Some students at Missouri S & T could help with that...Tags: Engineering, Human Interest, Science and Technology, Technology, The Happiest News!
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Josh Levin: Collins' declaration brings sports world into real world
When Jason Collins came out last week, a chorus of politicians, journalists and sports fans praised the NBA player for his courage and celebrated him for making history. It's been especially heartening to see that tolerance has outstripped bigotry even in...Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Discrimination, Minority Groups, Steve Nash, Metta World Peace
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End U.S. military aid to Israel
Your report on the Israeli strike on missiles in Syria bound for Hezbollah shows how the warmongering nation of Israel continues to use the billions of dollars in military aid it receives from the U.S. every year to wage war against its neighbors —...Tags: Israel
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Syrian intervention: Some questions
WASHINGTON -- For all the armchair generals advocating U.S. military intervention in Syria, I have a few questions: Is human suffering the reason for the United States to act? That is the noblest and most altruistic of motives, and the estimated 70,...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, United Nations, Pottery Barn, International Military Interventions, Biological and Chemical Weapons
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Peter Sagal takes educational ride with 'Constitution USA'
“Constitution USA With Peter Sagal,” the new PBS series about the country's ever-disputed founding document, tests an important constitutional principle: that the framework for a federal government, drafted with high hopes and noble purpose...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Teaching and Learning, Wars and Interventions, PBS (tv network), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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The struggle for Syria
My cousin, Ramez, was dead before the echoes of the gunshot that killed him stopped ringing. His 4-year-old daughter, Zeynab, watched him fall on a narrow street in Damascus, but she never heard the shot because she is deaf. She held onto his lifeless...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, United Nations, International Military Interventions, Islam
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Man convicted of spying in the U.S. is allowed to return to Cuba
MEXICO CITY -- A man convicted of spying in the U.S. for the Castro regime has been allowed to return to Cuba after more than a decade in an American prison, and on Monday he began the paperwork to make his homecoming permanent (link in Spanish). Rene...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Havana (Cuba), Justice System, Judges, Prisons
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Obama must find the best bad option in Syria
Having vowed that any use of chemical weapons by Syria would cross a U.S. "red line" and provoke a strong American response "with enormous consequences," President Barack Obama now finds himself under increasing pressure to act, following reports by U.S....Tags: Wars and Interventions, United Nations, International Military Interventions, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Weaponry
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Raytheon to move unit headquarters away from El Segundo
Raytheon Co., the Waltham, Mass., aerospace giant, announced that two of its four business units will have new headquarters locations. Raytheon's space and airborne systems unit headquarters will move from El Segundo to McKinney, Texas, where the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Congress, Virgin Group, Ltd., Science and Technology
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Jack W. Alexander, 88
Jack W. Alexander, 88, of Mercersburg, Pa., passed away Friday, May 3, 2013, at Chambersburg (Pa.) Hospital. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., on Nov. 9, 1924, he was the son of Joseph B. Sr. and Charlotte Weir Alexander. He graduated from Uniontown High...Tags: U.S. Army, Melbourne, Pittsburgh, American Legion, St. Petersburg (Pinellas, Florida)
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Syria blames Israel for predawn blasts near Damascus
BEIRUT — Huge explosions were reported in Damascus early Sunday, just two days after a reported Israeli airstrike in Syria targeting surface-to-air missiles possibly destined for neighboring Lebanon and the militant group Hezbollah. Syrian state...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Wars and Interventions, Benjamin Netanyahu, Government, White House
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Body fragments found at U.S. plane crash site in Kyrgyzstan
MOSCOW -- Rescue teams found remains of two crew members Saturday morning at the site of a U.S. military plane crash in Kyrgyzstan, an official said. “Fragments of two bodies have already been found as we are continuing the search,”...Tags: Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, U.S. Air Force, Afghanistan, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
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