Panel Seeks Broad Expansion of Military Benefits
A bipartisan panel urged sweeping military and veterans benefit reforms. It backs a new GI Bill offering full college scholarships for four years active duty and extends VA home loans, health services, and a tax deferred program. About 26 million veterans and 8.4 million service members would be eligible. The plan faces congressional and agency hurdles but aims to broaden access to higher education and benefits.
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Beheading duck leads to jail, boot camp in Michigan
Bradley Woods and Michael Prasher, aged 23 and 22, received 30 days in jail and two months in boot camp after beheading a duck with a golf club. They also face three years of probation, mental health treatment, and 100 hours of community service at an animal shelter.
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Bradley Woods
Michael Prasher
Battle to save duty-free shopping on Pride of Bruges
Passengers on the Pride of Bruges urge keeping duty-free shops as the EU plans to abolish duty-free sales across the bloc by June 30. EU tax chief Mario Monti says the practice creates a multi billion annual advantage and has no place in a border free Europe.
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U S lags in climate models core to predicting change
The U S trails in high resolution climate simulations, NRC warns. Peter Schultz notes the nation lacks integrated resources to match European capabilities and cites leaders in Canada Germany Australia for advanced modeling. Climate models use math to project weather and climate outcomes over time.
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Washington
United States
National Research Council
U.S
Peter Schultz
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NRC
Center For
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U S offers oil sales change tied to humanitarian aid
The United States proposed lifting oil export limits on Iraq if proceeds fund food and medicines, streamline U N procedures, and allow Baghdad to borrow against an escrow to bolster humanitarian aid and UNICEF programs. France and other powers weigh options as U N weapons inspections remain central.
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United States
Iraq
Baghdad
Peter Burleigh
Security Council
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Burleigh
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U.S
Unicef
France
Britain
Council
Early human ancestors ate meat and plants, study claims
A new study of Australopithecus africanus tooth enamel suggests a varied diet, including grass and grass-eating animals, challenging the view that these ancestors were only tree dwellers. Researchers say some specimens show up to half of their diet from grass or meat, but it remains unclear whether grassland plants or animals provided the signal. Fossils in South Africa date 2 to 3 million years ago, with Africanus about chimpanzee size and early bipedal movement.
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South Africa
Africanus
Matt Sponheimer
Rutgers University
New Brunswick
Sponheimer
John Kingston
Yale University
McKingston
Kingston
Lucy
Ethiopia
North Africa
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