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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. But whose job
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He sits in his living room, flipping through pictures. They show a 21-year-old in the middle of nowhere, dressed in military fatigues with another soldier who looks like he should be wearing a cap and gown instead of a helmet. "This is me and my driver,"
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Vi My Binh, 80, carries a bucket and tea bowl as she walks out of her house on Hang Buom street, in Hanoi's Old Quarter February 16, 2012. Binh, also known as Madam Tai, was one of the last ethnic Chinese to be forced to leave Vietnam after China... View Photo »
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Whether they were World War II, Korea, Vietnam or vets from the current conflicts, 100 percent of my patients said it was better than any drug they were prescribed for PTSD
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If two motorcades carrying prime ministers meet at an intersection, which one gets priority?
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Right now, we've got a boatload (well, for Boston) of foreign dignitaries flitting around, leading to all sorts of motorcade spottings and resulting traffic tieups all over the place, from Harvard Square to the Bank of America building downtown. The prim
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The CIA can (and does) point to its role in the arrest or elimination of a number of major Colombian traffickers. These arrests have not diminished the actual flow of cocaine into the United States, which on the contrary reached a new high in 2000. But t
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Vietnam targets mobile phone and related component exports of USD 12 billion this year, Viet Nam News reports. In January, mobile phone and component exports reached USD 850 million, up 0.8 percent over December and up 113.9 percent over January last
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Vi My Binh, 80, smokes while she sits at her home on Hang Buom street, in Hanoi's Old Quarter February 16, 2012. Binh, also known as Madam Tai, was one of the last ethnic Chinese to be forced to leave Vietnam after China launched a brief but bloody... View Photo »
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we can't afford to repeat the mistakes that have been made in the past - after World War II, after Vietnam - when our military was left ill-prepared for the future.
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After spending more than two decades on Death Row, time might be running out for a 57-year-old who was convicted of killing a guard in hopes of springing his best friend from prison. In a unanimous decision, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday denied W
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Not since Vietnam has the United States sat down with an enemy it was fighting on the battlefield and negotiated an exit from war. That long-standing policy might end this year if a carefully choreographed diplomatic dance takes U.S. and Afghan officials
About Vietnam
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Vietnam (Vietnamese: Việt Nam), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in Southeast Asia. It borders the People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest and Cambodia to the southwest. To the country's east lies the South China Sea. With a population of approximately 85 million, Vietnam is one of the most densely... Full Article
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Larry Connor (C), Vietnam veteran, salutes his fellow servicemen during the Welcome Home Heroes Parade in downtown St. Louis, Missouri January 28, 2012. The parade is the first in the country to honor recently returned Iraq veterans.
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A fleet of Eurocopter helecopters sit on the tarmac at the Singapore Airshow in Singapore on February 15, 2012. The Southern Vietnam Helicopter Corporation of Vietnam (VNH South) signed a contract on February 15 with Eurocopter South East Asia for its fourth EC225 heavy helicopter.
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Workers maintain an electric grid in Hanoi February 13, 2012. Vietnam will delay the start of competitive electricity generation market until July because conditions are not yet ready, its Industry and Trade Ministry said in local media.
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A man (L) puts a wooden dowel symbolising a penis into a wooden block symbolising a vagina during a cultural fertility ceremony at the Tro Tram temple in Vietnam's northern province of Phu Tho, 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Hanoi February 3, 2012. The ritual is northern Vietnam's only...
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An young girl poses beside robots of an exhibitor from Vietnam at the press preview of the international toy fair in Nuremberg, southern Germany, on January 31, 2012. Around 2.700 exhibitors from 62 countries show their newest products at the international toy fair which opens its doors...
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Senator Joseph Lieberman stands between the U.S. and Vietnamese national flag while attending a press briefing in Hanoi January 19, 2012. Lieberman, speaking in Vietnam ahead of a visit to Myanmar with Senators John McCain, Sheldon Whitehouse and Kelly Ayotte, said if the by-elections...
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Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (C-L) and Vietnam's National Assembly's Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung (C-R) talk in Hanoi January 16, 2012. Emir Khalifa al-Thani is in Vietnam on a two-day visit from January 16 to 17.
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Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (C-L) and Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung (C-R) talk at the Government Office in Hanoi January 16, 2012. Emir Khalifa al-Thani is in Vietnam on a two-day visit from January 16 to 17.
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Vietnamese Deputy Prime MInister Hoang Trung Hai addresses the Economist Conferences' Vietnam Summit being held in Hanoi on January 11, 2012. Organised by the Economist, the Vietnam Summit gathers business leaders, politicians, policy-makers and academics to debate and discuss the...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 10: Pham Phuoc Hung of Vietnam in action on the Pommell Horse during day one of the Men's Gymnastics Olympic Qualification round at North Greenwich Arena on January 10, 2012 in London, England.
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First Place: Salty Taste of Life, Ngo Truong Phuc, Vietnam.
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Former coach of Vietnam's national team Falko Goetz of Germany (C) addresses a press conference about the end of his contract with the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) as VFF Vice-president Pham Ngoc Vien (R) looks on at the VFF headquarters in Hanoi on January 6, 2012. VFF had fired...
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