Special Report: How the Pentagon's payroll quagmire traps America's soldiers

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But the problem that loomed largest that holiday season was different. Aiken had no money. The Defense Department was ….. Gary J. Pfleider II had been through rehab for drug addiction and was working at a Wal-Mart and a pizza restaurant when he …
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Outtakes from the jazz festival

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You can't find as depressing and harrowing a book about jazz and drug addiction as Art Pepper's classic Straight Life, yet I've plowed through it twice, and thrice for Bird Lives, Ross Russell's intimate biography of Charlie Parker. There's … Funding …
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What Long-Term Recovery Looks Like From Prison

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But with the successful completion of the Bureau of Prisons' Residential Drug Abuse Program (RDAP), I can get up to another year off. With those 12 months—plus another six for a halfway house placement—I should be leaving Federal Correctional …
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Want to Improve Medical Research? Cut Out the Animals!

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What the evidence is showing is that we can get much better answers about human health and diseases and develop more effective therapies if we use human-based tests instead of animal experiments. Again and … Dr. Richard Hotchkiss, a sepsis researcher …
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