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Feeling more heat than they did on their first day, officer candidates practice their drill for graduation prior to the ceremony.
Feeling more heat than they did on their first day, officer candidates practice their drill for graduation prior to the ceremony.

 

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Learning to lead A new crop of officers
Officer Candidates School pushes recruits to their physical and psychological limits to find out who has what it takes to be a Marine
There is no yelling. No invective. No spittle-laced derision.
RENEWED FOCUS ON HELMAND
Obama expected to give war plan in speech
KABUL -- Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that slowed this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the...
Patented seeds are go-to for farmers, who decry their fast-growing price
For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they've come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation's two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents.
Approach has allowed Fenty to do much but rubs some wrong way
The mayor's friends and advisers pleaded with him to bend. His refusal, they worried, made him look petty and threatened to undermine his relations with the District's political establishment.
By offering concrete emission targets last week, the United States and China have resuscitated global climate talks that were headed toward an impasse. But the details that have yet to be resolved -- including the money that industrialized countries would offer poorer ones as part of an agreement --...
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