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Science study shows 'promiscuous' enzymes still prevalent in metabolism
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Challenges fundamental notion of enzyme specificity and efficiency
Open an undergraduate biochemistry textbook and you will learn that enzymes are highly efficient and specific in catalyzing chemical reactions in living organisms, and that they evolved to this state from their sloppy and promiscuous ancestors to allow cells to grow more efficiently. This fundamental paradigm is being challenged in a new study by bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego, who reported in the journal Science what a few enzymologists have suspected for years: many enzymes are still pretty sloppy and promiscuous, catalyzing multiple chemical reactions in living cells, for reasons that were previously not well understood.
In this study, the research team, led by Bernhard Palsson, Galetti Professor of Bioengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, brought together decades of work on the behavior of individual enzymes to produce a genome-scale model of E. coli metabolism and report that at least 37 percent of its enzymes catalyze multiple metabolic reactions that occur in an actively growing cell.
Weve been able to stitch all of the enzymes together into one giant model, giving us a holistic view of what has been driving the evolution of enzymes and found that it isnt quite what weve thought it to be, said Palsson.
When organisms evolve, it is the genes or proteins that change. Therefore, gene and protein evolution has classically been studied one gene at a time. However in this work, Palsson and his colleagues, introduce an important paradigm shift by demonstrating that the evolution of individual proteins and enzymes is influenced by the function of all of the other enzymes in an organism, and how they all work together to support the growth rate of the cell.
Using a whole-cell model of metabolism, the research team found that the more essential an enzyme is to the growth of the cell, the more efficient it needs to be; meanwhile, enzymes that only weakly contribute to cell growth can remain sloppy. The study found three major reasons why some enzymes have evolved to be so efficient, while others have not:
- Enzymes that are used more extensively by the organism need to be more efficient to avoid waste. To increase efficiency, they evolve to catalyze one specific metabolic reaction.
- When enzymes are responsible for catalyzing reactions that are necessary for cell growth and survival, they are specific in order to avoid interference from molecules that are not needed for cell growth and survival.
- Since organisms have to adapt to dynamic and noisy environments, they sometimes need to have careful control of certain enzyme activities in order to avoid wasting energy and prepare for anticipated nutrient changes. Evolving higher specificity makes these enzymes easier to control.
Our study found that the functions of promiscuous enzymes are still used in growing cells, but the sloppiness of these enzymes is not detrimental to growth. They are much less sensitive to changes in the environment and not as necessary for efficient cell growth, said Nathan Lewis, who earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the Jacobs School in March and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School.
This study is also a triumph in the emerging field of systems biology, which leverages the power of high-performance computing and an enormous amount of available data from the life sciences to simulate activities such as the rates of reactions that break down nutrients to make energy and new cell parts. This study sheds light on the vast number of promiscuous enzymes in living organisms and shifts the paradigm of research in biochemistry to a holistic level, said Lewis. The insights found in our work also clearly show that fine-grained knowledge can be obtained about individual proteins while using large-scale models. This concept will yield immediate and more distant results.
Our teams findings could also inform other research efforts into which enzymes require further study for overlooked promiscuous activities, said Hojung Nam, a postdoctoral researcher in Palssons lab. Besides testing and characterizing more enzymes for potential promiscuous activities, enzyme promiscuity could have far-reaching impacts as scientists try to understand how unexpected promiscuous activities of enzymes contribute to diseases such as leukemia and brain tumors, said Nam.
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Funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health (DE-SC0004917, DE-FG02-09ER25917, and 2R01GM057089-13) and a fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF GK-12 742551).
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858-822-1359
University of California - San Diego
Challenges fundamental notion of enzyme specificity and efficiency
Open an undergraduate biochemistry textbook and you will learn that enzymes are highly efficient and specific in catalyzing chemical reactions in living organisms, and that they evolved to this state from their sloppy and promiscuous ancestors to allow cells to grow more efficiently. This fundamental paradigm is being challenged in a new study by bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego, who reported in the journal Science what a few enzymologists have suspected for years: many enzymes are still pretty sloppy and promiscuous, catalyzing multiple chemical reactions in living cells, for reasons that were previously not well understood.
In this study, the research team, led by Bernhard Palsson, Galetti Professor of Bioengineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, brought together decades of work on the behavior of individual enzymes to produce a genome-scale model of E. coli metabolism and report that at least 37 percent of its enzymes catalyze multiple metabolic reactions that occur in an actively growing cell.
Weve been able to stitch all of the enzymes together into one giant model, giving us a holistic view of what has been driving the evolution of enzymes and found that it isnt quite what weve thought it to be, said Palsson.
When organisms evolve, it is the genes or proteins that change. Therefore, gene and protein evolution has classically been studied one gene at a time. However in this work, Palsson and his colleagues, introduce an important paradigm shift by demonstrating that the evolution of individual proteins and enzymes is influenced by the function of all of the other enzymes in an organism, and how they all work together to support the growth rate of the cell.
Using a whole-cell model of metabolism, the research team found that the more essential an enzyme is to the growth of the cell, the more efficient it needs to be; meanwhile, enzymes that only weakly contribute to cell growth can remain sloppy. The study found three major reasons why some enzymes have evolved to be so efficient, while others have not:
- Enzymes that are used more extensively by the organism need to be more efficient to avoid waste. To increase efficiency, they evolve to catalyze one specific metabolic reaction.
- When enzymes are responsible for catalyzing reactions that are necessary for cell growth and survival, they are specific in order to avoid interference from molecules that are not needed for cell growth and survival.
- Since organisms have to adapt to dynamic and noisy environments, they sometimes need to have careful control of certain enzyme activities in order to avoid wasting energy and prepare for anticipated nutrient changes. Evolving higher specificity makes these enzymes easier to control.
Our study found that the functions of promiscuous enzymes are still used in growing cells, but the sloppiness of these enzymes is not detrimental to growth. They are much less sensitive to changes in the environment and not as necessary for efficient cell growth, said Nathan Lewis, who earned a Ph.D. in bioengineering at the Jacobs School in March and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School.
This study is also a triumph in the emerging field of systems biology, which leverages the power of high-performance computing and an enormous amount of available data from the life sciences to simulate activities such as the rates of reactions that break down nutrients to make energy and new cell parts. This study sheds light on the vast number of promiscuous enzymes in living organisms and shifts the paradigm of research in biochemistry to a holistic level, said Lewis. The insights found in our work also clearly show that fine-grained knowledge can be obtained about individual proteins while using large-scale models. This concept will yield immediate and more distant results.
Our teams findings could also inform other research efforts into which enzymes require further study for overlooked promiscuous activities, said Hojung Nam, a postdoctoral researcher in Palssons lab. Besides testing and characterizing more enzymes for potential promiscuous activities, enzyme promiscuity could have far-reaching impacts as scientists try to understand how unexpected promiscuous activities of enzymes contribute to diseases such as leukemia and brain tumors, said Nam.
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Funding was provided by the U.S. Department of Energy and National Institutes of Health (DE-SC0004917, DE-FG02-09ER25917, and 2R01GM057089-13) and a fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF GK-12 742551).
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Windows Phone and BlackBerry are the only things that can slow Android?s rise in enterprise
Typically, it's considered good news to lead an important race. In Missouri, it's a cause for anger and wild accusations. Rep. Todd Akin's explosive comments about rape and pregnancy have thrown a bizarre wrench in the Senate race, as partisans on both sides of the aisle claim that pollsters are artificially underestimating the other side's standing -- on purpose. Democratic-leaning pollster Public Policy Polling (PPP) went into the field Monday night -- roughly 24 hours after Akin's initial comments set off a firestorm. ...
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Time Warner Cable expanding fiber broadband coverage in NYC, only businesses to benefit
Google, we're not in Kansas anymore, we're in New York, where Time Warner Cable is planning to drop $25 million on expanding its (up to) 1Gbps fiber broadband infrastructure. Specifically, the additional network is hitting neglected areas in Brooklyn and Manhattan, but it's not for general consumption -- it's strictly for businesses. Don't feel too disheartened though -- you might not be getting a slice of this particular fiber pie, but it's all you can eat, all the time at the free WiFi buffet.
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How Can I Get All the Photos My Friends and I Share Online in a Single, Consolidated Collection? [Ask Lifehacker]
Dear Lifehacker,
I have photos on Facebook, Instagram, Flickr, and a bunch of other services. On top of that, friends post photos of me just as many places. I want to consolidate all these images into a single location. How can I do that?
Sincerely,
Photo Spread
Dear PS,
There are many ways to download photos from various sites and save them to a collection on your computer, but that can take a pretty long time and involve a lot of manual effort. Instead, you can use two social services to do the work for you. After a little setup, you'll have all your photos?and photos from your friends and family?all in one place without lifting a finger.
Before we can get started, you're going to need to sign up for a couple of free accounts: Social Folders and IFTTT (If This Then That). Social Folders is like Dropbox for your social media (more info here) and IFTTT is a clever tool that can automate various actions with webapps and services (more info here). Depending on what you want to accomplish, and how many different photos sites you use/your friends use, you may only need one of these services. We'll go over both and you can decide what suits you best.
Link Social Folders to Your Photo Accounts
Social Folders has two components: a web interface for setting up the links between your social media accounts and its service, and a desktop app to sync files between Social Folders and your computer. If you've already signed up for an account, you've likely downloaded the desktop software you'll need to use Social Folders. If not, do that now, log into your Social Folders account in your web browser, and follow these steps to set up your first service:
- Click the green "Add a new service" button on the left.
- You'll see a long list of social media services, like Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, and more. You can choose any photo site you'd like to start with, but for this example we'll use Flickr. To get started with Flickr, click the "Connect to Flickr" button on the right.
- A window will pop up asking you to log in and authorize Social Folders. Go ahead and authorize it.
- Social Folders will make the connection between Flickr and itself. Once finished, you'll be asked if you want to download all of your photos or "Access my settings." If you want to download every photo in your collection, go ahead and choose that option and call it a day. If not, click "Access my settings" and read on.
- The pop-up window will close and you'll find yourself on a page displaying all your Flickr sets. "Future Albums" will be selected and highlighted already, letting you know that anything you add to Flickr will be synced to your computer(s) using Social Folders?even if you add photos via Flickr's web interface on a friend's computer while traveling across the country. You can also choose any other sets you want to keep in sync. Select any albums you want and you're done!
You can repeat this process for any other services you use. With some services, such as Facebook, you can even sync your friends' photos, or any photos you were tagged in, automatically. This will help keep your collection complete without lifting a finger. Additionally, you can now upload all your photos to any linked photo service by just dropping them in the appropriate Social Folders folder on your computer. You'll be able to manage 2,000 files for free. If you want to sync more than 2,000 files, Social Folders charges $2 per month or $10 per year to remove all limitations.
Automate Photo Downloads with IFTTT
IFTTT can automatically retrieve new photos from various services and sync them to your Dropbox account. While Social Folders is ideal for your photo collections, when you want to pull from the collections of others IFTTT handles that task beautifully. To start syncing, you'll need to create a new recipe. Here's how to do it, using Instagram as an example:
- Click the "Create" link up top.
- Click the "this" link, highlighted in blue.
- Choose Flickr from the grid of services. If you haven't used IFTTT with Instagram before, you'll need to activate IFTTT's Instagram Channel (by clicking the "Activate" button). If prompted, log into Instagram and then authorize the link between it and IFTTT.
- You'll be presented with a grid of Instagram-related triggers. While you may want to set up more than one trigger, the most likely choice will be "New photo by specific user," as it will allow you to automatically download any photos from a user you like/follow. Choose it.
- Enter the name of the Instagram user whose photos you want to download.
- Click the "that" link, highlighted in blue.
- Choose Dropbox from the grid of services. Activate and authorize the Dropbox channel just like you did with Instagram (if necessary).
- From the Dropbox actions grid, choose "Add a file from URL."
- IFTTT will fill in all the relevant details for you so that every new photo will be added to your Dropbox account with a relevant file name. You can make changes if you want or just keep the settings exactly as they are. When you're satisfied, click the "Create Action" button.
- IFTTT will show you your completed recipe. If it all looks good to you, click the "Create Recipe" button.
Now new Instagram photos from the user you specified will be added to your Dropbox automatically so you don't need to download them yourself. You can repeat this process for other Instagram users or use the same steps to add other services as well. For more options, check out this process for creating digital duplicates of all your photos.
We hope you enjoy your automatically consolidated photo collection!
Love,
Lifehacker
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Safety measures lacking all the way to the federal ... - Simply Security
You are here: Home / Internet Safety / Safety measures lacking all the way to the federal level
People look to government officials and offices to protect and serve, but it doesn't seem those supposedly in charge of safeguarding the general public are prepared to stop the plethora of online data security threats currently facing the American public.
People look to government officials and offices to protect and serve, but it doesn't seem those supposedly in charge of safeguarding the general public are prepared to stop the plethora of online data security threats currently facing the American public. Action is being proposed to increase federal security readiness, both for an attack against government data as well as to uphold private sector data security.
Increased reliance on the cloud has given some a false sense of security, but as reports have shown, the instance of data theft has not declined significantly in recent years. In fact, while the number of attacks may have gone down slightly, the amount of information and value of that data has increased, as hackers find new, more sophisticated ways of harvesting files. To combat these problems, storage and internet providers are coming up with enhanced encryption and pushing users to build stronger passcodes, but not everyone is heeding the message. Instead, the U.S. government is bulking up its online threat detection and blocking methods to better serve American users.
Taking action for privacy
The Government Accountability Office (GAO), the federa watchdog arm of the U.S. Congress, which looks at federal programs and departments to check for compliance and measure success, has taken a hard line with data protection protocols from the top down in a recent report.
The GAO is calling for new federal guidelines and requirements of users, providers and government offices to safeguard information for private individuals and businesses alike. Federal offices and public officials are also using these cloud and online resources, the GAO contests, meaning a blanket security upgrade is essential to protect everyone universally. Specifically, the GAO wants the outdated Privacy Act to be brought into the 21st century by creating federal regulations on data security online, overseeing Internet activity and creating a unified document for web users to instruct them on how and why they need to protect their information.
Increasing safety measures
The purpose of boosting the reach of federal agencies with the Privacy Act is to keep private information where it belongs, even if it may feel like the oversight committee is asking for a broader reach for government agencies into that same information. InformationWeek reported that Greg Wilshusen, the director of the GAO, has called for regulations as to how agencies and private companies monitor and collect personal data as well. That would mean even though higher standards of data protection were being enforced online, no excess of power would be taking place.
Daniel Akaka, representative from Hawaii, also called on the U.S. government to take action for data security, according to PC Advisor. Akaka stated that his own information had been compromised not long ago because of a lack of security observance within the Thrift Savings federal retirement program. This instance affected more than 100,000 federal workers, potentially harming not only their current information portfolios, but also putting their retirement and 401(k) accounts at risk, according to CIO. While no action has been taken with the leaked data yet, the problem remains that the system had been easily compromised.
"We need to go back and redouble our efforts," said Greg Long of the Federal Retirement Thrift Board. "We feel we that we have been focused on IT security, but this is a wake-up call. We know that there are sophisticated attackers out there."
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Source: http://www.simplysecurity.com/2012/08/28/safety-measures-lacking-all-the-way-to-the-federal-level/
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Is business Plan necessary for startup a business ? - Internet ...
I think that business planning is very important for a successive business. A reasonable amount or capital is backbone for a business but market awareness is also very important for a good business. A good location, where your customers have easy & frequent access to you, can enable a struggling business to strive well and thrive properly.
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A Minute With: Sam Raimi's truly haunting "Possession"
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Film director and producer Sam Raimi, for the first time in a long career of spooking audiences with his horror films, has turned to real-life events for supernatural thriller "The Possession," opening in the United States on Friday.
Raimi, whose credits range from directing 2002's "Spider-Man" to producing horror flicks such as "The Grudge" and "The Grudge 2," produces "The Possession." The movie, directed by Ole Bornedal, is inspired by a newspaper account of a family that fights a demon known as a Dibbuk in ancient Yiddish folklore.
The spirit, which resides in a Dibbuk box, is said to possesses the bodies of people with the intention of devouring them. In "The Possession," the Dibbuk enters the body of a young woman and her parents must figure out how to stop it.
Raimi spoke with Reuters about his new movie.
Q: Is it true that you got the idea for this film from a story you read in the Los Angeles Times?
A: "Yes, my partner and I read the article entitled 'A jinx in a box?' by Leslie Gornstein about this Dibbuk box that brought horror to anyone in possession of it. Then I researched more online and thought that this could be a great script. There were so many stories of different people and their experiences. We decided to focus on one family that encountered the box. This newly divorced couple and how they have to put aside any animosity to overcome this evil. That fascinated me."
Q: I read that Ole Bornedal went a few unconventional routes during filming -- using real moths in one pivotal scene and casting reggae artist Matisyahu. Did you support the decisions?
A: "Yes, absolutely. He (Matisyahu) is not just an unusual choice for shock value, I think he's really right for the film and his performance was exceptionally true and original. Ole wanted to update the traditional view of the wise, old rabbi and Matisyahu goes against all expectations. Yet you believe in his faith and he made the idea of an exorcist new to me."
Q: As your first horror film based on actual events, was there anything more creepy about making "The Possession"?
A: "It was really spooky to work on! This, however, also presented a whole set of problems unto itself."
Q: Such as?
A: "We had to secure a lot of rights to the original L.A. Times article, to the various people involved. When you're writing a screenplay based on real events, there are times when there isn't a good dramatic structure and that's what happened here...So, we ended up dropping some of the actual events to drive the story forward and that's why it's based on actual events. Thankfully, we had fantastic writers in Juliet Snowden and Stiles White. They really created these original characters that you connect with."
Q: What makes a good horror film in your opinion?
A: "The needs of a horror film are the same needs as in any dramatic film. The audience has to connect. You have to have a solid main character that you can really understand and relate to. You have to know what they want. There has to be a set of believable obstacles that you watch them overcome, and there has to be an interesting resolution."
Q: You've focused alot on horror films throughout your career. Why?
A: "It's funny. I never liked horror films as a kid! I was a coward and they scared me (he laughs). But, at the time that I was a youngster trying to break into the business there was no indie (independent film) scene. There was no Sundance Channel. The only way to break in at that time was to make a horror film for a couple hundred grand. I literally started in horror just to break into the business!"
Q: Do you have a favorite from your body of work?
A: "I don't actually. They're like children to me. I love them all equally."
Q: What's new on the Sam Raimi front?
A: "I'm currently working on a new supernatural story with my brother Ivan. We've just finished the treatment but I can't tell you anything about it just yet."
(Editing By Bob Tourtellotte and David Gregorio)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/minute-sam-raimis-truly-haunting-possession-090459604.html
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Thoracic Oncology Support Group - DukeHealth.org
- Date
- Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012
Click here for a list of other dates - Time
- 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
- Organization
- Duke Cancer Patient Support Program
- Description
This support group is for patients and families coping with lung cancer, head and neck cancers, or sarcoma. Meetings are held every Tuesday.
Parking vouchers will be available to group participants.
- Contact
- For more information, please call 919-684-4497 or e-mail cancersupport@duke.edu
- Registration status
- No registration required
- Location
- Duke Cancer Center
- Location Specifics
- Room 0N01,
0-Level Conference Room by Cancer Center Cafe - Address
- 20 Duke Medicine Circle
Durham, NC 27710
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Get Rid of Impacted Ear Wax ?
We understand that ear wax is little bit annoying when noticed by your seatmate or your friend. Even so, a single thing they carry out not know will be that earwax helps us trap dirt as well as other tiny insects that will enter inside of our head and prevents them coming from infecting our ear canals. It will even help us protect our ear gland from very loud noises. Even though we always clean our hearing, it will still grow to be visible between 1 or two days and nights after cleaning. This is definitely normal to people since this really is an element of our body system. The common thing that will trigger earwax to get affected is truly that when we push also hard the cleaner that we are using and can make it much more closer to our outer canal, it will clog the ear canal and will cause us to have difficulty in hearing. If you noticed, some elders are using hearing helps because the majority of them have impacted earwax. Others have an abnormal ear canal shapes that are also due to affected earwax.
Just how to get rid of it or a remedy that could function
Getting rid of afflicted earwax can be performed very easily at home. The common thing to use will be an olive oil or baby oil. Place a little amount of oil into natural cotton buds and little by little put it within your ears to soften your affected earwax. Do that while often while you can so that the earwax will become gentle easily. If you can tolerate pouring an amount of baby oil inside of your ear canal, that would be better. The much more oil you place inside of, the faster your afflicted earwax will turn into softer. Depart it for number of minutes then wipe it with clean cloth and use natural cotton buds for cleaning the inner portion of your respective ears.
If actually doing these basic therapies won?t help you, you may go to the ear specialist that can help you clean your ear thoroughly and will help soften your impacted earwax quickly. They could even flush your earwax out through your head. Some of them will guide you to take antibiotics for prevention of infections. Affected earwax could be prevented somehow. Just make it a habit to always use natural cotton buds only in cleaning your hearing rather than people hard objects like paper clips or hair pins because these are dangerous to your ear and will definitely cause impacted earwax.
While you?re going to discover that these tips may help reduce the wax itself, you?re going to want to become very mindful in regards as a result of your ear area. You?re going to want to make certain that you don?capital t put a Q Tip in way too far since it can greatly perform damage to your ear drum. You will probably locate out that there are many over the counter remedies which you?ll want to stay away from at the same time.
Make sure to check with with a Doctor if you?re finding that the problem continues to get worse. They may end up being able to prescribe something for you that will operate.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
NETS' Jack Hanley to Discuss Safety ... - Automotive Fleet
ST. PAUL, MN ? The Automotive Fleet & Leasing Association (AFLA) will be hosting a presentation by the Network of Employers for Traffic Safety (NETS) Executive Director Jack Hanley at the 2012 AFLA Conference to discuss data-based ways for companies to reduce crashes, injuries, and costs.
AFLA stated the presentation, which will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 11 a.m., at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country, San Antonio, Texas, and will include a discussion of the road safety program elements that set apart the companies with the lowest collision per million mile ratios. Another aspect of fleet safety management the presentation will cover includes how fleet professionals can use benchmarking strategically as a way to gain commitment and resources from management, and tactically, in order to put a collision-reduction program in place.
Hanley?s presentation also will provide a review of how companies are addressing the use of technology, training, business case development, cell phone use policies, and more, as it relates to fleet safety.
According to AFLA, the presentation is intended for a range of participant types, from companies with advanced road safety programs to those that are in the process of developing programs.
Visit AFLA?s website here to register for the conference.
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Lindsay Lohan sought for questioning in theft: reports
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Actress Lindsay Lohan is being sought for questioning by Los Angeles police over a jewelry theft at the home of a friend, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday, citing unnamed law enforcement sources.
The Times said police were expected to present a case to prosecutors as early as Tuesday to determine if there was enough evidence to file charges over a theft of watches. It was not immediately clear who was a suspect.
A spokesman for "Mean Girls" actress Lohan declined comment.
The incident surfaced in the media last week when celebrity website TMZ.com reported that the troubled actress and her assistant were guests at a home in the Hollywood Hills, and the owner later reported a theft to the Los Angeles police.
The Los Angeles Times said the owner of the watches is not cooperating with their investigation.
If Lohan, 26, is found to be involved in a theft, it could pose serious consequences for the actress who was released from almost five years of formal probation in March this year.
She is still on informal probation until 2014 from a jewelry theft case last year, and officials could revoke her probation and send her back to jail.
Lohan, who rose to fame as a child star in "The Parent Trap" and other movies, saw her once-promising career derailed by a 2007 drunk driving and cocaine possession arrest.
She has been trying to clean up her tarnished image since being released from formal probation, with guest roles on TV sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live," a cameo on "Glee" and filming the Lifetime television movie "Liz & Dick."
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Matthew Lewis)
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Networks prepare to juggle politics, weather
NEW YORK (AP) ? Television networks began juggling two major stories on Monday, still wondering whether Tropical Storm Isaac will cause them to divert a large amount of attention from the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
Anderson Cooper of CNN and Shepard Smith of Fox News Channel were shifted by their networks from Tampa to New Orleans, where the storm appeared headed. It's an odd rerun for both of them: four years ago they left a GOP convention to head to the gulf region ahead of Hurricane Gustav. MSNBC was sending Tamron Hall and Lester Holt to New Orleans in advance of Isaac, and Soledad O'Brien was joining Cooper for CNN.
The major broadcast networks haven't shifted resources yet. Even before the Republicans chose to cancel the first night of the convention on Monday and compress the action into three days, ABC, CBS and NBC had not planned on broadcasting from Tampa on Monday night. Each has scheduled an hour of convention coverage over the next three nights.
"We continue to watch the storm closely and we will have correspondent coverage throughout the region," said Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews, vice president of CBS News. "We will reposition some of our resources as necessary."
Brian Williams of NBC News has taken an intense interest in the New Orleans area since Hurricane Katrina seven years ago, but there are no immediate plans for him to switch cities. NBC's coverage is augmented through its partnership with The Weather Channel, also owned by the Comcast Corp.
The cancellation of Monday's convention activities due to Isaac forced schedule changes upon television networks. Instead of three hours on politics, PBS shifted to entertainment programming. CNN reran a documentary on Republican Mitt Romney that first aired Sunday night. Fox News Channel and MSNBC played to their bases with their typical opinion programs.
Throughout Monday, CNN mixed coverage of the storm with political stories from Tampa. Even when its correspondents were talking politics, the lower portion of the network's screen flashed updates on the path and wind speed of Isaac. The network has plenty of experience following multiple stories, said Sam Feist, CNN political director.
"This is CNN," Feist said. "We can walk and chew gum at the same time."
The uncertainty about the storm's path and strength made for uncertainty among Republicans, too.
"This is a difficult set of circumstances for the Republicans," said Fox's Smith, "because as this storm comes through it's going to be fighting for TV time, and newspaper headline time and water cooler talk time. The Republicans had hoped they would be able to have all of the attention of themselves for the next few days and it would appear that Isaac has thrown a wrench in that."
Networks strive, as best they can, to be fair to both parties in terms of television time around the conventions. Even with the storm, Feist said he expects the Republicans to get as much or more coverage than the Democrats, primarily because of the GOP's original plan to have a four-night convention.
Television didn't even need the convention to start to produce some fireworks on Monday. MSNBC's "Morning Joe" featured a bitter confrontation with MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews attacking Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Romney campaign tactics, leaving show hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski plainly uncomfortable.
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Tropical Storm Isaac lashing Florida Keys
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) ? Tropical Storm Isaac gained fresh muscle Sunday as it bore down on the Florida Keys, with forecasters warning it could grow into a dangerous Category 2 hurricane as it nears the northern Gulf Coast.
Isaac drew new strength early Sunday during a warm-water crossing of the Florida Straits after causing weekend havoc in Cuba, where it downed trees and power lines. Before that, Isaac was blamed for four deaths in Haiti.
On Key West, locals followed time-worn storm preparedness rituals while awaiting the storm after Isaac swamped the Caribbean and shuffled plans for the Republican National Convention. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Sunday that Isaac had started lashing the Keys with rain and wind by late morning.
A steady line of cars moved north Saturday along the Overseas Highway, the only road linking the Florida Keys. Residents boarded up windows, laid down sandbags and shuttered businesses ahead of the approaching storm. Even Duval Street, Key West's storied main drag, was subdued for a weekend, though not enough to stop music from playing or drinks from being poured.
"We'll just catch every place that's open," said Ted Lamarche, a 48-year-old pizzeria owner visiting Key West to celebrate his anniversary with his wife, Deanna. They walked along on Duval Street, where a smattering of people still wandered even as many storefronts were boarded up and tourists sported ponchos and yellow slickers.
"Category None!" one man shouted in a show of optimism.
The Keys were bracing storm surge of up to four feet, strong winds and the possibility of tornadoes. The island chain's two airports closed Saturday night, and volunteers and some residents began filing into shelters.
"This is a huge inconvenience," said Dale Shelton, a 57-year-old retiree in Key West who was staying in a shelter.
Isaac has already left a trail of suffering across the Caribbean.
The storm's center made landfall Saturday near the far-eastern tip of Cuba, downing trees and power lines. In the picturesque city of Baracoa, the storm surge flooded the seaside Malecon and a block inland, destroying two homes.
At least four people were reported dead in Haiti, including a 10-year-old girl who had a wall fall on her, according to the country's Civil Protection Office. The government also reported "considerable damage" to agriculture and homes. Nearly 8,000 people were evacuated from their houses or quake shelters and more than 4,000 were taken to temporary shelters.
The Grise River in Haiti overflowed north of Port-au-Prince, sending chocolate-brown water spilling through the sprawling shantytown of Cite Soleil, where many people grabbed what possessions they could and carried them on their heads, wading through waist-deep water.
Scores of tents in quake settlements collapsed. In a roadside lot in Cite Soleil, the dozens of tents and shelters provided by international groups after the earthquake were tossed to the ground like pieces of crumpled paper, and the occupants tried to save their belongings.
After Isaac passes the Keys, it will move over the warm, open waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to gain significant strength. It could ultimately make landfall on the northern Gulf Coast late Tuesday or early Wednesday. However, forecasters have stressed that the storm's exact path remains highly uncertain.
"Definitely the northern Gulf Coast should be preparing for a hurricane right now," Jessica Schauer, a meteorologist with the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
A Category 2 hurricane is capable of top sustained winds of 96 to 110 mph (154 to 177 kph).
Isaac isn't likely to hit Tampa head-on, but it could still lash the city with rain and strong winds just as the convention ramps up. A tropical storm warning is in effect for parts of Florida's west coast, including Tampa Bay.
Convention officials said they would convene briefly on Monday, then immediately recess until Tuesday afternoon, when the storm is expected to have passed. Florida Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican, declared a state of emergency and canceled his plans to attend convention events on Sunday and Monday.
As of 8 a.m. EDT, the storm was centered about 80 miles (129 kilometers) southeast of Key West, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. Isaac had top sustained winds of 65 mph (100 kph).
It was moving to the west-northwest toward the Keys at 18 mph (29 kph). Tropical storm-force winds extended outward up to 205 miles (335 km) from the center, meaning storm conditions were possible in many places even if Isaac does not pass directly overhead.
A hurricane warning was in effect for the Keys, including the Dry Tortugas and for the west coast of Florida from Bonita Beach south to Ocean Reef, among some other areas, authorities said.
Meanwhile, a hurricane watch was in effect from east of Morgan City, La. ? including the New Orleans metro area ? eastward to Indian Pass., Fla.
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Associated Press writers Bill Barrow in Tampa, Fla.; Trenton Daniel and Evens Sanon in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Peter Orsi and Anne-Marie Garcia in Havana; Fernando Gonzalez in Baracoa, Cuba; and Ezequiel Abiu Lopez in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, contributed to this report.
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Your Health Journal - Len Saunders
From The Sydney Morning Herald?..
AUSTRALIAN children should be weighed and measured regularly at school to tackle childhood obesity, experts say.
Researchers from Deakin University?s World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention said efforts to address the public health epidemic in Australia were being hamstrung by inadequate and outdated data.
They said the federal government needed to introduce a population-wide program to monitor childhood obesity, which was ?a fundamental component of prevention?.
Writing in the journal Pediatric Obesity, the researchers said the absence of such a program meant Australia was falling behind other countries including Britain in measuring childhood obesity and evaluating strategies aiming at reducing it.
?Obesity is one of the major public health concerns facing Australia yet currently there are no routinely collected data to effectively track the problem,? they said.
?Monitoring obesity prevalence in children provides important population health data that can be used to track trends over time, identify areas at greatest risk, determine the effectiveness of interventions and policies, raise awareness and stimulate action.?
The researchers, led by Dr Katie Lacy, said opt-out consent ? where parents were informed of the program and consent assumed unless they sought to withdraw it ? was the best model to ensure high participation rates and obtain representative data. They said fears that taking height and weight measurements in schools could negatively affect children?s body image appeared to be unfounded, based on a statewide program in Arkansas in the US.
?In the Arkansas program, it has been shown that there were no significant increases in teasing, weight concerns, embarrassment or unhealthy dieting among adolescents after three years of measurements,? the researchers said. They said it appeared that problems could be avoided by taking measurements privately and confidential results.
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John Bendon, senior vice president and managing director, and Jason Kinnison, vice president, with NorthMarq?s Omaha Regional office recently arranged first mortgage refinancing of $25.39 million for The Traditions and West Pacific Crossing in Omaha.
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In Toll of 2,000, New Portrait of Afghan War : Blog Rela??es - Unisinos
His war was almost over. Or so Marina Buckley thought when her son Lance Cpl. Gregory T. Buckley Jr. told her that he would be returning from southern Afghanistan to his Marine Corps base in Hawaii in late August, three months early.
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Instead, Lance Corporal Buckley became the 1,990th American service member to die in the war when, on Aug. 10, he and two other Marines were shot inside their base in Helmand Province by a man who appears to have been a member of the Afghan forces they were training.
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Aboard a medical helicopter, Cpl. Andrew Smith of the Marines was treated by Sgt. Jaime Adame, top, an Army medic, after being seriously wounded in an attack in Helmand Province on May 15, 2011. Corporal Smith ultimately recovered from his injuries.
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A week later, with the death of Specialist James A. Justice of the Army at a military hospital in Germany, the United States military reached 2,000 dead in the nearly 11-year-old conflict, based on an analysis by The New York Times of Department of Defense records. The calculation by The Times includes deaths not only in Afghanistan but also in Pakistan and other nations where American forces are directly involved in aiding the war.
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Nearly nine years passed before American forces reached their first 1,000 dead in the war. The second 1,000 came just 27 months later, a testament to the intensity of fighting prompted by President Obama?s decision to send 33,000 additional troops to Afghanistan in 2010, a policy known as the surge.
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In more ways than his family might have imagined, Lance Corporal Buckley, who had just turned 21 when he died, typified the troops in that second wave of 1,000. According to the Times analysis, three out of four were white, 9 out of 10 were enlisted service members, and one out of two died in either Kandahar Province or Helmand Province in Taliban-dominated southern Afghanistan. Their average age was 26.
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The dead were also disproportionately Marines like Lance Corporal Buckley. Though the Army over all has suffered more dead in the war, the Marine Corps, with fewer troops, has had a higher casualty rate: At the height of fighting in late 2010, 2 out of every 1,000 Marines in Afghanistan were dying, twice the rate of the Army. Marine units accounted for three of the five units hardest hit during the surge.
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Suffering the most casualties was the Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment out of Camp Pendleton, Calif. Twenty-five of its Marines died and more than 180 were wounded, many with multiple amputations, during a bloody seven-month deployment in Helmand that began in fall 2010.
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The analysis also shows that Army casualties during the surge fell heaviest on two bases with frequently deployed units: Fort Campbell in Kentucky, home to the 101st Airborne Division, which recorded the most Army deaths in the surge, and Fort Drum in New York, home to the 10th Mountain Division.
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The summer remained the peak season for fighting, with the single highest period for American deaths being July, August and September 2010, when at least 143 troops died. And as has been the case since at least 2008, improvised explosive devices, known as I.E.D.?s, remained a leading cause of death and injury, along with small-arms fire, the analysis showed.
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But this year, another threat emerged: an intensified wave of attacks by Afghan security forces.? In just the past two weeks, at least 9 Americans have been killed in such insider attacks. For the year to date, at least 40 NATO service members, most of them American, have been killed by either active members of the Afghan forces or attackers dressed in their uniforms ? already outstripping the toll from all last year.
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Those insider attacks have increased concerns about NATO?s ability to turn security operations over to Afghan forces by 2014, the deadline set by President Obama for withdrawing the remaining American forces. For families, the deaths have raised hard questions about whether the Pentagon is doing enough to protect its troops from their own allies.
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Though Afghanistan is now considered the nation?s longest war, at 128 months and counting, the number of dead is fewer than half the total in the Iraq war, where more than 4,480 died in eight years. More active-duty and reserve soldiers killed themselves last year, 278, than died in combat in Afghanistan, 247.
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None of that brings solace to the families of the dead. For the Buckleys, of Oceanside, N.Y., their son?s death so near the end of his tour, so late in the long war and possibly at the hand of a purported ally, was uniquely anguishing.
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As Mrs. Buckley recounted things her son loved ? basketball, girls, movies, the beach ? bitterness choked her words.
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?Our forces shouldn?t be there,? she said. ?It should be over. It?s done. No more.?
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A Unit Hit Hard
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The Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., was emblematic of the surge. Sent into Sangin, Afghanistan?s opium-producing heartland, in 2010, the battalion faced a formidable enemy expert in the use of I.E.D.?s., losing 25 Marines in a seven-month tour, the second most of any American unit in the entire war, a Times analysis shows.
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Mark Moyar, an independent national security analyst who has studied the battalion?s operations, said that the British who had preceded the Marines in Sangin, a district in Helmand, focused on economic development and political outreach to undermine the insurgency. But the Taliban also operated with near impunity in parts of the district, he said.
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The battalion took a different approach, pushing into Taliban-dominated villages. Fighting was intense, with civilians often getting caught in the middle, and casualties piled up fast.
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On Oct. 8, barely two weeks after the battalion landed, it lost its first Marine, Lance Cpl. John T. Sparks. Five days later, four Marines of the battalion died when their armored truck was destroyed by a powerful bomb. Three more died the next day when they stepped on a mine during a foot patrol.
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The rapid-fire deaths prompted calls in Washington for the battalion to pull back. But senior Marine commanders ? including the battalion commander, Lt. Col. Jason Morris ? prevailed on Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to leave them in place.
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?Everyone was shocked, including me, that we lost that many guys that quickly,? Colonel Morris said. ?But honestly, me and most of my Marines would have rather come home in body bags than let the Taliban claim a victory.?
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Deanna Giles, the mother of a squad leader from the battalion, remembers those days all too well. Amid the blur of casualty reports, Ms. Giles began watching for strange cars in her neighborhood in Kankakee, Ill., fearing the next one would bear horrible news.
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Anxiously seeking information or solace, she took to Internet chat rooms, forming a powerful digital bond with other families from the battalion, whom she never met in person.
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?You began to care about people in a way you could not have before the Internet age,? Ms. Giles said.
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Her son, Sgt. Caleb Giles, came home alive. Patty Schumacher?s son, Lance Cpl. Victor A. Dew, did not.
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Ms. Schumacher had begged her son to defer enlisting until the war ended. When he refused, she urged him to take a job with a presidential security detail. He again said no, determined to be an infantryman and to go to war.
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?Boy, did my heart sink,? she recalled. ?But I was also proud of him for following his true desires. As a parent you just suck it up, hold your heart and take a deep breath and hope all goes well.?
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In late August 2010, Lance Corporal Dew proposed to his girlfriend, then was deployed a month later. Within weeks of arriving in Helmand, he died with three other Marines in a powerful I.E.D. blast. At age 20, he became the 1,259th American to die in the war.
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Inside his coffin, his fianc?e placed a photograph of herself, wearing her wedding gown.
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Ms. Schumacher maintains a Facebook page to keep his memory fresh, and occasionally toasts him at dinner. She still cries, too, though the tears are hard to predict, prompted by stray images and fleeting sounds that remind her of him: a smile, a song, a joke.
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?When do you get better? You don?t ever get better,? she said. ?You just get better in your grieving. There will always be something that triggers it. And then you are back on that emotional roller coaster.?
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Attacks From Afghans
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Staff Sgt. Scott E. Dickinson was coming home early. He was originally scheduled to remain in Helmand until November 2012, but the Pentagon was pulling Marines out of Afghanistan quickly, looking to get the surge forces out of the country by fall and shrink the American footprint to about 70,000 troops. He would be home in Hawaii within a week or two, he told his father early this month.
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Not long after that conversation, his father, John Dickinson, saw an article about a soldier who had died just a week before he was to come home. ?I thought, ?He?s not safe until he sets foot in Hawaii,? ? recalled Mr. Dickinson, an architect in San Diego.
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He was right. Sergeant Dickinson, 29, a supply specialist who had volunteered to help train Afghan forces, died with Lance Corporal Buckley on Aug. 10. They were among six Marines killed that day in two separate attacks by men who appeared to be Afghan security force members.
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The Pentagon asserts that most of those attacks have been the result of personal grudges, disputing Taliban claims to have widely infiltrated the Afghan security forces.
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But the attacks have also raised anew concerns about the integrity of the Afghan forces that NATO expects to secure the entire nation after NATO troops withdraw in 2014.
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More fundamentally, the continued deaths, occurring even as American forces are conducting fewer combat missions, have prompted service members and military families to wonder: has the decade-long American presence in Afghanistan made a difference?
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Colonel Morris, the former commander for the Third Battalion, Fifth Marine Regiment, has little doubt that it has. After months of fierce fighting, he saw clear changes when he left Sangin in early 2011. Those improvements remain, he asserts, with residents participating in elections and going to school with less fear of Taliban intimidation ? though such intimidation is far from gone.
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?Every single Marine in my battalion could see the impact they had,? he said. ?It was a validation of everything they had sacrificed for.?
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Despite his son?s death, Mr. Dickinson agrees. Marina Buckley is not so sure.
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?He was the most lovable, caring human being,? she said of her son. ?He wore his heart on his sleeve. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.?
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He had wanted to join the Marine Corps ever since 9/11, despite her many attempts to dissuade him. By the time he was in high school a Marine Corps flag hung in his bedroom and her efforts to get him to go to college ? Adelphi University accepted him his senior year ? had failed.
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?I?d say, ?Why the Marines?? ? she said, and he would reply with a joke. ?I can pick up a lot of chicks with that uniform,? he would say.
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But his ambition was serious: he wanted to serve, then become a Suffolk County police officer. He came to relish the brotherhood of the Marines and adored his first posting, in Hawaii. But deployment was different. The loneliness, the heat and the Meals Ready to Eat wore on him, Ms. Buckley said.
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And he never felt secure living alongside Afghans, she said.
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?If they want to kill themselves, let them,? she said of the Afghan people. ?But they are killing people who shouldn?t be killed, who have lives here, and family here, and brothers and sisters here.?
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Fonte: The New York Times ? 21 de agosto de 2012 ? Por James Dao e Andrew W. Lehren
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