A 33-year-old Knoxville, Tenn. man with 30 children appeared in court this week to ask the state for child-support help, Memphis news station WREG reported Wednesday.
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Syria’s Wounded Refugees: Tales of Massacre and Honorable Soldiers
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad doesn’t make threats lightly. And as they confronted the uprising in the town of Jisr al-Shughour, government security forces were blunt, according to the medical staff in area’s small hospitals and the local Red Crescent outpost there
Animals: Chincoteague’s Round-Up
Just off the coastal juncture of Virginia and Maryland lies small, picturesque Chincoteague Island.
How Germany Keeps Kids From Dropping Out
It may be hard for Americans to fathom a world in which corporations, instead of merely lamenting the shortage of skilled labor, volunteer to train vast numbers of the non-college-bound.
Obamaworld 2012
As big as a football field and nearly as empty, Barack Obama’s re-election headquarters looks like a start-up gone wrong. Wires sprout like weeds from the carpeting, legions of bookshelves stand empty, and the swing-state maps hastily pinned to the wall are freebies from the AAA auto club down the street.
Forum: Should The Draft Be Reinstated?
Charles Rangel –Democratic Congressman from New York and Korean War vet Staying the course in Iraq means increasing our troop strength, and, not surprisingly, recruitment and re-enlistment levels are down. But proposed enlistment bonuses and other economic incentives will not make the military any more attractive to upper-middle-class young people
10 Questions for George H.W. Bush
Have you seen a shift in the past 20 years in the public’s attitude toward service? I think so.
A People’s History of Sports
A People’s History of Sports in the United States By Dave Zirin The New Press; 268 pp.