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APB: The Balloon is Up
APB: The Balloon is Up by Mel Gurtov 365 words During World War I, British forces sent up hot-air balloons to spy on advancing enemy forces. In recent times, a number of countries, including the US and France, have launched data-gathering balloons. The Chinese military last year reported favorably on many uses for such balloons,
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Uh Oh, Here Comes the Occupying Army
Uh Oh, Here Comes the Occupying Army by Robert C. Koehler 1011 words America, America . . . God kicks thee in the head. The twisted irony here — the irony of the brutal murder of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee last month — is that his killers were the ones hired and trained to
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Goodbye, Tyre
Goodbye, Tyre by Leslie D. Gregory, PA-C 906 words When Tyre Nichols woke up the morning of the last day of his life, I feel certain that he wasn’t thinking about racism or the chance that it might be his end, though he’d likely had “the talk” from his parents at an early age. He’d