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When soldiers talk about being "in the shit," they sometimes mean it literally. This week Iraq veteran Jason Christopher Hartley, author of "Just Another Soldier: A Year on the Ground […]
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Jason Christopher Hartley on creating "Surrender," a play about his Army experience.
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The soldier and author reveals his role models.
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An Iraq veteran explains why the pen is more challenging than the sword.
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What you can’t know about the Army until you join.
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An Iraq veteran reflects on the disturbing ratio of enemies to innocents killed in combat.
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The author and former infantryman argues that homosexuals belong in the infantry—and women don’t.
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How one American soldier blogged the truth about the war until his commander stopped him.
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An Iraq soldier’s gritty life at war, from confrontation to masturbation to defecation.
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The story of one Army National Guardsman in New York on 9/11.
Banks have some of the largest collections of art. Since the bail out, should the public see an aesthetic return on investment?
A South Korean scientist responsible for the world’s first cloned dog has been convicted of embezzlement and illegal harvesting of human eggs.
The memoirs of Juanita Castro reveal she spied for the US against her brother Fidel in the 1960s.
Obama is ‘pleased’ the Senate has decided to include a public option for health coverage, according to the White House press secretary.
Only 16.5m of the promised 250m doses of swine flu vaccine have been made available and Americans are beginning to panic.
Volcanoes set the stage for the rise of the Appalachian Mountains and the ice age that followed, new research has found.
Scientists have discovered a new species of butterfly which has ears on its wings.
Amnesty International has accused Israel of denying Palestinians adequate access to water.
Is the government prepared for internet clogging during the swine flu pandemic?