By BRIAN STELTER
Senator Barack Obama’s videotaped response to President Bush’s final State of the Union address — almost five minutes of Mr. Obama’s talking directly to the camera — elicited little attention from newspaper and television reporters in January.
But on the medium it was made for, the Internet, the video caught fire. Quickly after it […]
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Rozel Point Journal : By KIRK JOHNSON
ROZEL POINT, Utah — Will McMillin and Liz Wing walked more than three miles of rutted, muddy road on a recent afternoon carrying a bicycle wheel, a wooden stool and a golf club.
Following directions they had gleaned from art Web sites and small road signs, they arrived here at […]
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By WARREN E. LEARY : CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle Endeavour returned safely to Earth on Wednesday evening, completing a record-breaking 16-day mission to the International Space Station.
The shuttle rolled to a stop at 8:39 p.m., roughly an hour after its commander, Dominic L. Gorie, fired twin braking rockets that brought the spacecraft […]
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By C. J. CHIVERS
This article was reported by C. J. Chivers, Eric Schmitt and Nicholas Wood and written by Mr. Chivers.
Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharply intensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
But to arm the Afghan forces […]
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