Now that the sweeping defense authorization bill for 2012 has passed the Senate and House, the fight over Tricare, the health insurance plan for the military, has reached a truce — for the moment. House and Senate negotiators are working out differences in the defense authorization bill before it goes to President Obama, but Tricare is not among the contested issues. Read full article > >

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Battle over military health-care premiums slows — for now

For the moment, let’s say we’re not buying the official, nothing-to-see-here story the White House is dishing about the gaping hole being ripped into the lawn outside the Oval Office. Let’s say we suspect the construction crews that have been dipping their backhoes into the most secure soil in the free world are doing something more complex than mere utility work. Read full article > >

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In the nation’s capital, underground is where it’s at

For the moment, let’s say we’re not buying the official, nothing-to-see-here story the White House is dishing about the gaping hole being ripped into the lawn outside the Oval Office. Let’s say we suspect the construction crews that have been dipping their backhoes into the most secure soil in the free world are doing something more complex than mere utility work. Read full article > >

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In the nation’s capital, underground is where it’s at

How a kid with a laptop at his dad’s kitchen table came to define the moment in hip-hop.

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Lex Luger Can Write a Hit Rap Song in the Time It Takes to Read This

A common message from anti-abortion activists is that “women deserve better than abortion.” Today, however, one branch of that movement is taking women down a notch with a new strategy that could prioritize the rights of fertilized eggs over the rights of the women carrying them. A question on the ballot in Mississippi next month will ask voters to decide: “Should the term ‘person’ be defined to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning or the equivalent thereof?” This issue is before voters thanks to the “personhood” movement, which says that conception is the moment that a person, and a person’s legal rights, begin to exist. Read full article > >

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How an anti-abortion push to redefine ‘person’ could hurt women’s rights

A photographer captures the moment a woman was attacked by a rutting stag in a Royal Park in south-west London.

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You knew the moment would come; it always does. The transaction’s over, and you have a crucial decision to make: Do you tip the hotel doorman who swung the portal open for you? What about the pool guy who brought you a towel? Or the room-service waiter who handed you a bill that includes a service fee? Or anyone who assisted you in Japan? Read full article > >

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Brother, can you spare a tip?

Families of the 184 people who died in the attack remember the moment.

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At Pentagon, No Words Will Fill Void

Ballplayers master the appearance of cynicism. The years in the minors, the certainty of eventual injury, the grind of a career that can last thousands of games almost ensures it. Except on the occasions when they drop their armor entirely because the stakes are too high, the excitement too genuine. For weeks in the Washington Nationals’ bullpen, the same subject has kept coming up: the night, the game and the moment that Stephen Strasburg returns. And now, rain willing, it is scheduled for Tuesday night at Nationals Park.  Read full article > >

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Excitement about Strasburg’s return cracks ballplayers’ cynical armor

If this book were read by an intelligent person who spent the last 10 years on, say, Mars, she would have no idea that Dick Cheney was the vice president in one of the most hapless American administrations of modern times. There are hints, to be sure, that things did not always go swimmingly under George W. Bush and Cheney, but these are surrounded by triumphalist accounts of events that many readers — and future historians — are unlikely to consider triumphs. This is not surprising. The genre of statesman’s memoir rarely produces self-criticism, or even much candor. Apparently, the point is to redeem your large advance from the publisher with a brisk, self-complimenting account of your life and times, with emphasis on your moment in the limelight. There should, of course, be a dash of “news” and a few frank passages about your true feelings — about others, not yourself. Read full article > >

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‘In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir’ by Dick Cheney

The widow of a man killed by a shark on their Seychelles honeymoon describes the moment she heard his “awful scream”.

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Shark widow ‘remembers screams’

It has been a long time coming, but the moment the “international community” has been dreading is finally upon us. The era of peace in the Middle East is about to come to an end. By peace I mean the “peace process.”

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The End of "Peace" in the Middle East

Scientists are a step closer to solving the mystery of the universe’s origins after trapping and storing anti-matter for 16 minutes. At the moment of the Big Bang, matter and anti-matter should have been created in equal amounts, according to the laws…

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Technology: It lets you tap phone lines, and it lets you sign the bill remotely that authorizes you to do so. Visiting France at the moment, President Obama used a machine that holds a pen and signs his actual name to approve an extension of the…

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Obama Signs Patriot Act Extension

Images of the moment a tsunami hit the Fukushima nuclear plant

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Atomic flood