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4 hrs ago | WABC 7

Nearly 10,000 homeless vets in NYC area

The number of military veterans who are homeless in the New York City metropolitan area is nearly 10,000. That's according to Senators Charles Schumer of New York and Robert Menendez of New Jersey.

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Related Topix: Veteran Affairs, New York Metro, Robert Menendez, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

8 hrs ago | Salisbury Journal

Delia serves up a Christmas special

Stock up on your cranberries - Delia Smith is to host her first Christmas special for almost 20 years, it has been announced.

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Related Topix: Recipes, Food, Fruits

12 hrs ago | The Leaf-Chronicle

Real troop support

Ah, Veterans Day is upon us. What better time to show our support for our men and women in uniform? But have we really been supporting them? Sure, we thank them when we see them at the airport.

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Related Topix: Veteran Affairs

17 hrs ago | The Daily Breeze

Veterans must remain a priority

The first Armistice Day on Nov. 11, 1919, marked the one-year anniversary of the end of World War I, what many proclaimed, with an optimism that turned out to be wildly misplaced, "the war to end all wars." It became a U.S. national holiday in 1938 and in 1954 was renamed Veterans Day to honor all veterans.

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Related Topix: US Military, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, US Army, Veteran Affairs, Opinion

Tue Nov 10, 2009

Athens Banner-Herald

Intrepid Maine troop greeters age along with wars

Jerry Mundy rarely misses an opportunity to extend his hand and offer thanks to young soldiers and Marines returning home, or departing for the war zone, during their brief layovers at the nation's easternmost major airport, a refueling hub for military transports.

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Related Topix: US Military, US Marine Corps, Veteran Affairs, Grand Rapids Metro, Entertainment

WPLG

Video Shows Fatal School Fight

The Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office on Tuesday released surveillance video and a taped confession in the case of a teen's fatal stabbing at his high school , WPLG in Miami reported.

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Related Topix: Self Defense, Family, Teenagers

Mental Help Net

To Feel Better, Low-Fat Diet May Be Best

Both a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet such as the popular Atkins program and a low-fat, high-carb diet appear to help people lose pounds over the course of a year.

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Related Topix: Food, Dieting, Australia, World News, Low Carb Diet, Atkins Nutrional Method

WLTX-TV Columbia

Fewer Fliers Likely for Turkey Day

The USA's big airlines expect to carry 4% fewer passengers during the Thanksgiving holiday travel period than they did last year.

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Related Topix: Thanksgiving, Holidays

Q13.com KCPQ TV

Calif. governor signs $11B water bond measure championing new dams, kicks off voter campaign

Framed by a shrinking mountain reservoir, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a far-reaching water bond on Monday intended to rebuild California's crumbling water system and fund new dams to save up the precious resource for dry years.

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Related Topix: California, California Government, US Governors, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Food, Vegetables, Friant, CA, Weather, Natural Disasters, Drought

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Star-telegram.com

Obama encourages federal hiring of veterans

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE The White House launched an effort Monday that it says will turn the government into a model employer of military veterans and possibly provide encouragement for private employers to do the same.President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating the Council on Veterans Employment, part of an initiative to encourage ...

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Related Topix: Veteran Affairs, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

KIDK-TV Idaho Falls

Scanning invisible damage of PTSD, brain blasts

It's work that one day may allow far easier diagnosis for patients a ' civilian or military a ' who today struggle to get help for these largely invisible disorders.

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Related Topix: Veteran Affairs

CBS News

Chestnut Gobbles Down 50 Meatballs To Win Contest

Joey Chestnut maintained his dominance in the sport of competitive eating - and expanded his palate - by winning the first-ever Martorano's Masters Meatball Eating Championship in Las Vegas.

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Related Topix: World Records, Food, Pizza, Offbeat

Coast Reporter

Israel briefly eases blockade, allows thousands of cattle into Gaza for Muslim holiday

Israel is briefly easing its tight blockade of the Gaza Strip to ship in thousands of cattle ahead of a major Muslim holiday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said on Monday.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Holidays, Eid al-Adha

Newsday.com

UC Berkeley students roll a giant serpent of sushi

A series of tables covered with ingredients to make sushi snakes along the walkway near Sather Gate on the campus of the University of California as students work to construct a 330-foot-long California sushi roll on Sunday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Berkeley, CA, Sushi, Japanese Cuisine, Food, UC Berkeley, World Records

WABC

Police say 45,000 turned out for the annual Veterans Day Parade in Hartford.

An estimated 45,000 onlookers are estimated to have turned out for the annual Veterans Day Parade through the streets of downtown Hartford.

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Related Topix: Hartford, CT, Veteran Affairs

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Free Press

TV cooking star Rachael Ray helps struggling Ohio town still ravaged by loss of major employer

Television cooking star Rachael Ray is boosting the local food supply for a struggling Ohio town.

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Related Topix: Thanksgiving, Holidays

Boston Globe

Burdened by wars, military counselors face an overload of cases

Many of the patients who fill the day are bereft, angry, broken. Their stories are gruesome, their distress lasting, and the process of recovery exhausting.

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Related Topix: Psychology, Science, US Military, US Army, Fort Hood, Veteran Affairs

AlertNet

Market attack in NW Pakistan kills at least 12

A suicide bomber killed an anti-Taliban village mayor and 11 other people in an attack near Pakistan's volatile city of Peshawar on Sunday, officials said.

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Related Topix: World News, Pakistan, Holidays, Eid al-Adha, Asia, Afghanistan

DNJ.com

Raasch: Jobs, not health care, on voters' minds

WASHINGTON - It's about jobs, stupid. Like the leftovers of a fat turkey on Thanksgiving, exit polls from Tuesday night's Republican surges in Virginia and New Jersey and the GOP's fratricide in New York's 23rd congressional district gave pundits, pollsters and political consultants a new set of bones to pick through.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Holidays, Thanksgiving, Barack Obama, 9

Boston Herald

Climate of accord turns chilly

Intelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk.

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Related Topix: Global Warming, 9, Food, Local Food, Opinion

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