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By SUSANNE M. SCHAFER, Associated Press – Thu Apr 21, 7:26 am ET

FORT JACKSON, S.C. – Military service has long been one route to U.S. citizenship. Now the Army and Navy, in need of specialists and language skills in wartime, are speeding things up by allowing recruits to wrap up the process while they're still in basic training.

It means a...

Great timing

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/russian-migration-official-fired-in-racism-row

By Alissa de Carbonnel

MOSCOW, April 20 (Reuters) - The spokesman for Russia's main migration agency was fired on Wednesday after saying in an interview the "survival of the white race was at stake" in Russia.

Konstantin...

What Would Your Mother Do? The 'abstinence' underwear designed to put teenagers off sex

Parents are often resigned to the fact that they cannot control their teenagers.
But some mothers refuse to give up trying.
A range of 'anti-sex' underwear has been designed to promote abstinence using slogans like 'zip it' and 'not tonight'....

Advocates for the mentally disabled say their clients may be adults physically, but they have the mental capabilities of children.

The death of a 31-year-old mentally disabled suburban Fort Worth woman inspired the legislation that's passed the Texas House. Michelle Mills runs the center from which Tiffany ran away.

"My husband called the...

International banks, acting on government orders to freeze assets from Libya, Egypt and Tunisia, are scouring hundreds of millions of client files for individuals on the new watch lists. But in doing so, bank compliance officers are grappling with a peculiar challenge: the myriad ways of transliterating Arabic names.

The arcane problem is...