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  • Age Limit For Active Duty Army
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    The Army announced yesterday that it missed its recruiting goal for the fourth consecutive month, a deepening manpower crisis that officials said would require a dramatic summer push for recruits if the service is to avoid missing its annual enlistment target for the first time since 1999. The Army will make a 'monumental effort' to bring in the average 10,000 recruits a month required this summer, said Maj. Gen. Michael D. Rochelle, head of the Army's recruiting command. An additional 500 activ...
  • Grandmother In A Nursing Facility
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    Within the last few years I have done a lot of critical thinking. Let see, where do I start? July 2002, my family and I went to Arkansas to celebrate my grandmother's (dad's mom) 93rd birthday. My dad and his sibling had decided to place grandmother in a nursing facility and I did not think that it was good idea because she had lived at home for all these years and now they were deciding to take her from all that she knew. My grandmother had been in a wheelchair for about eight years and had not...
  • Tupac's 2 Pacalypse Now
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    Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur, in my thoughts, is the best rapper there is. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16, 1971. He was born in New York. Tupac Amaru are Inca words. Tupac Amaru means a "shining serpent". Shakur means "thankful to God", and that came from the Arabic language. When Tupac was 12 years old, his first performance was a play "A Raisin in the Sun". In that play Tupac played Travis. In June of 1986, Tupac's family moved to Baltimore from New York. That is where Tupac wrote his fir...
  • Baseball
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    Derek Morris: A Personal Bio My name is Derek Morris. I'm a seventeen year old student. I enjoy playing baseball and that is my life. I have been playing since I was one and a half. I moved through the ranks of organized baseball and like other ballplayers hope someday to play at the utmost level, the pros. It probably won't come true but who knows. Being a student at Shrewsbury I have had much success. I have been on the honor roll many times and a few months ago I was accepted to Bryant Colleg...
  • Sunset And Midnight Prayers
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    The sal at-the five obligatory daily prayers-is also known as the name in Iran, India, and Turkey. These prayers are only performed after ritual bathing and take place before sunrise, at noon, in the mid-afternoon, immediately after sunset, and before midnight. Mainstream Shiites combine the noon and afternoon prayers and also the sunset and midnight prayers so that they need only pray three times a day. Praying in Islam is also associated with a specified set of postures, such as standing, bowi...
  • Number Of American Troops In Iraq
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    The magazine's editors chose the nameless soldier to represent the 1.4 million men and women who make up the U.S. military, which led the invasion of Iraq nine months ago and a week ago captured deposed leader Saddam Hussein. About 130,000 U.S. soldiers remain in Iraq, with others deployed in Afghanistan, South Korea and elsewhere. Soldiers were singled out as the top news makers of the year because 'the very messy aftermath of the war made it clear that the mission had changed, that the mission...
  • Six Months
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    Driving Age How long did you have to wait to get your license, was it three weeks, six weeks maybe Well, we have to wait 6 months after we get our permit. Now, you didn't have to wait that long, did you. For the new bill that has passed in Kentucky says that students must wait six months to get their license after you turn sixteen. Do you think that that is right Can you remember how many times you crashed the first six months that you got your license I am here to convince you that raising the ...
  • Four Months
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    In the early months in the mining camps, the euphoria of having survived life-threatening journeys, combined with the camaraderie of a still-mysterious, shared adventure, gave rise to a certain communal spirit. Men were generous with one another, and with information - exaggerated as it most often was. During the first year of working the mines, there was relative peace between Native Americans and whites as well. Good will flourished in a land of apparent plenty: "The conviction was widespread ...
  • Maya 20 Day Month
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    The Maya Calendar The Maya calendar in its final form probably dates from about the 1st century B.C. It is extremely accurate, and the calculations of Maya priests were so precise that their calendar correction is 10,000th of a day more exact than the standard calendar we use today. They used 20-day months, and had two calendar years: the 260-day Sacred Round, or tzolkin, and the 365-day Vague Year, or haab. These two calendars coincided every 52 years. The 52-year period of time was called a "b...
  • Israeli And Palestinian Sources
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    JERUSALEM, Sept. 28 -- Palestinians marked the third anniversary of the outbreak of their uprising, or intifada, by taking to the streets today in support of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, while a recent opinion poll showed that roughly two-thirds of Israelis expect the conflict to continue for at least another year. Witnesses reported that about 4,000 people marched in the West Bank city of Nablus, carrying pictures of Arafat, chanting slogans and beating drums. News services reported smalle...
  • Later Ritz And Escoffier
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    Auguste Auguste Escoffier Auguste Escoffier Auguste Escoffier was born on October 28, 1846, in the village of Villeneuve-Lou bet, France. He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Escoffier and his wife Madeleine Civa tte. His father was the villages blacksmith, farrier, locksmith, and maker of agricultural tools. Escoffier's childhood dream was to become a sculptor. Unfortunately he was forced to give up that dream at the age of thirteen, just after he celebrated his first Holy Communion Escoffier was to...

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