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Lesson From Ivory Coast: How to Give Birth During a War

Two weeks ago, Julie Esse, about nine months pregnant, looked as if she could become another tragic footnote in Ivory Coast's bloody conflict. Instead, her story -- with its twist ending -- turned out to be something O. Henry might have written, with a title about two bags of Type O negative blood and details about scary...

Air Force Spending $4 Million a Day for Libya War

WASHINGTON -- The Air Force secretary says the service has been spending about $4 million a day to keep 50 fighter jets and nearly 40 support aircraft in the Libya conflict, including the cost of munitions. Secretary Michael Donley tells reporters that the Air Force has spent $75 million as of Tuesday morning on the war....

The War on Hamsters Rages On in Afghanistan

The war in Afghanistan isn't just against al-Qaida, it's also against hamsters and other varmints. According to The Wall Street Journal, a few good Americans stationed in the country are not there to battle terrorists, but to battle birds that might shut down a jet engine in flight, as well Indian crested porcupines,...

The Book on Frank Buckles: America's Last Doughboy

I met Frank Woodruff Buckles on a chilly March afternoon in 2007 at his farmhouse in Charles Town, W.Va. He was a mere 106 years old back then. The last surviving American veteran of World War I lived on nearly four more years. He died Sunday at 110. At the time we met, Buckles was one of four known surviving U.S....

For the War's Wounded Troops and Families, Elmo Can Help

How can you gently explain to a 4-year-old that Daddy has been killed in Afghanistan and will never come home? How does a combat-wounded Marine convince his scared young son that he's still the same loving Dad, even though his thighs now end in stumps?

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02/10/12 âThis Means War' release delayed Source: The News Tribune - Tacoma WA In an unusual move, 20th Century Fox is pushing back the official opening of the romantic action-comedy "This Means War" from Tuesday to Feb. 17.
02/10/12 Tony-Winning Hit War Horse Sets Out to Conquer Toronto... Source: Playbill The Toronto production of War Horse , the Tony and Olivier Award-winning international hit based on Michael Morpurgo's novel of the same title, begins performances Feb. 10 at the Princess of Wales Theatre.
02/09/12 French revolution film in Berlin conjures Arab Spring Source: Buenos Aires Herald - Argentina "Farewell My Queen," a sumptuous costume drama about the beginnings of the French Revolution, opened the Berlin film festival on Thursday and had audiences drawing parallels with the "Arab Spring" uprisings.
02/09/12 Drama Foyle's War is coming back for more Source: The Sun - London - UK Show screenwriter, author Anthony Horowitz, hinted the popular wartime drama, starring Michael Kitchen as detective Christopher Foyle, would return.
02/09/12 'Flowers of War' review: Period drama wilts where it... Source: NOLA.com - New Orleans LA Based as it is on one real-life island of humanity amid the staggering brutality and destruction of Japan's so-called "Rape of Nanking" in 1937, Chinese director Zhang Yimou's "The Flowers of War" is built around a remarkable enough story -- and telling it is already an ambitious enough undertaking.

Background on war

War is an organized, armed, and often a prolonged conflict that is carried on between states, nations, or other parties typified by extreme aggression, social disruption, and usually high mortality.

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