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WASHINGTON | A computer-based game is helping to support the training of military commanders and their staffs in counterinsurgency and stability operations. ...
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Winter doesn't necessarily come as a surprise in northerly Sweden. But unusually low temperatures and heavy snowfalls continue to set the agenda and disrupt traffic timetables.
Afghanistan's health system is still deeply troubled after decades of war. But progress is being to reduce infant and maternal mortality.
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Amid war Afghanistan trains thousands of new midwives (The Christian Science Monitor)
From the Throat which tunnels trains out of King's Cross to the grand sweep of Waverley station in Edinburgh, the east coast mainline is a slender corridor through the best of Britain.
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What do Canada Post and the Mars Rover have in common with mammograms and video games? All use image sensors designed and made by Waterloo-based DALSA Corp.
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Waterloo firm guides Mars rover (Toronto Star)
Today is Monday, Oct. 5, the 278th day of 2009. There are 87 days left in the year.
Jude Barnes wanted a large garden and her husband, Ted, wanted to build a model railway, so they did both. The Mithryl Railway on their Inglewood property is the only privately owned model railway in Taranaki.
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It requires "uncommon patriotism" to join the U.S. military during a time of war, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told recruits during a graduation ceremony Friday at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center near North Chicago.
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Gates salutes Great Lakes grads (Chicago Tribune)
How UK army trains for Afghanistan in rural England
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Helmand at home (BBC News)
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — On the day Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Csrnkofound out he was going to be a general in 2000, his commander asked him his goals. At the top of his list was to command the school that trains the Army's elite special operations soldiers.
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General: School will meet increased troop demand (Rocky Mount Telegram)