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Afghanistan
4:00 pm
Mon January 28, 2013

Women In Combat: What Do Troops In Afghanistan Think?

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U.S. troops in Afghanistan appear to have mixed feelings about the decision lifting the ban on women in combat positions. Some women already operate in combat zones. Hospital Corpsman Shannon Crowley is shown here with her Marine Corps team in Musa Qala, Afghanistan, in November 2010.
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Originally published on Mon January 28, 2013 8:17 pm

The new U.S. military policy on women serving in combat roles was crafted in Washington, but it will play out in places like Afghanistan.

And sitting outside at the military base at the Kabul airport, male and female troops offered their thoughts on what the new policy might mean.

"I wasn't completely surprised with it. It's not anything we haven't discussed before," said Capt. Monica Paden, a military intelligence officer from San Diego. "We have been slowly being integrated into combat arms and into units in support roles."

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All Tech Considered
3:14 pm
Mon January 28, 2013

As Developing World Goes Mobile, Can Apple Make The Sale?

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A salesperson demonstrates the Apple iPhone 4 in New Delhi, India. While mobile device use is growing rapidly in emerging markets, Apple's current product line may prove prohibitively expensive for many consumers.
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Originally published on Mon January 28, 2013 6:23 pm

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Author Interviews
1:54 pm
Mon January 28, 2013

'Anything That Moves': Civilians And The Vietnam War

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Visitors take in a re-created scene at the massacre museum at Vietnam's My Lai village. Researcher Nick Turse says atrocities of all kinds were more common in the Vietnam War than most Americans believe.
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Nick Turse is the author of Kill Anything That Moves, about the Vietnam War.
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Originally published on Mon January 28, 2013 4:06 pm

On March 16, 1968, between 347 and 504 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were gunned down by members of the U.S. Army in what became known as the My Lai Massacre.

The U.S. government has maintained that atrocities like this were isolated incidents in the conflict. Nick Turse says otherwise. In his new book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, Turse argues that the intentional killing of civilians was quite common in a war that claimed 2 million civilian lives, with 5.3 million civilians wounded and 11 million refugees.

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Book Reviews
1:54 pm
Mon January 28, 2013

Jane Austen's 'Pride And Prejudice' At 200

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English novelist Jane Austen, shown here in an original family portrait, was born in December 1775.
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Originally published on Mon January 28, 2013 6:38 pm

My favorite item from the growing mountain of Pride and Prejudice bicentennial trivia comes courtesy of an article in something called Regency World Magazine, which is going gaga over the anniversary. The article, "Albert Goes Ape for Austen," describes how a 200-pound orangutan named Albert, living in the Gdansk Zoo in Poland, insists on having 50 pages a night of Pride and Prejudice read to him at bedtime by his keeper or else he refuses to go to sleep.

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Business
1:35 pm
Mon January 28, 2013

The Ideology Of The Expendable Employee

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According to the American Staffing Association, the U.S. temp industry has added more jobs than any other over the past three years.
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Originally published on Tue January 29, 2013 2:00 pm

As lawmakers in Washington debate job creation, and unemployment rates remain high, the temporary labor workforce continues to grow.

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