The unemployment rate basically held steady at 7.9%. This was slightly below the 165,000 figure economists were predicting.
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Chuck Hagel’s Third Purple Heart
Chuck Hagel, who earned a pair of Purple Hearts as a grunt in Vietnam, all but earned a third on Thursday during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He came away from seven hours of testimony …
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Contract-Announcement Run-On Sentence of the Year
From Thursday afternoon’s Pentagon contact announcements:
Ace Info Solutions Inc.*, Reston, Va. (N65236-13-D-4939); aVenture Technologies L.L.C.*, Vienna, Va. (N65236-13-D-4940); Barling Bay L.L.C.*, North Charleston, S.C. (N65236-13-D-4941); Centuria Corp.*, Reston, Va., (N65236-13-D-4942); DKW Communications Inc.*, Washington. D.C. …
Should Colleges Ban Double Majors?
As higher-education organizations look for ways to boost graduation rates, an open letter urges schools to narrow student choices
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Japan Boosts Defense Spending, More Or Less
Hagel’s Hurdles
To hear Chuck Hagel’s detractors tell it, he’s a corrupt, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Israel, Iranian-loving, Castro-loving chicken-hawk who will hide behind his two Vietnam Purple Hearts as he slashes the Pentagon budget and …
Time to Curb Unintended Military Pregnancies
The U.S. military faces numerous challenges. Among these are the burgeoning costs of healthcare and persistently limited participation of women.
Practical solutions exist which can tackle both of these problems …
Reality Check: There Is No Chicken Wing Shortage — Prices Haven’t Really Soared Either
Despite reports to the contrary, buffalo wings, chicken wings, or whatever you want to call them will be widely available during Super Bowl weekend.
Minesweeper USS Scrap
The USS Guardian, which ran aground near the Philippines Jan. 17, will be cut into pieces and removed, chunky-style.
The Most Buzzed-About Super Bowl Ads of 2013, A Sneak Preview
Forget the days when you were totally surprised by the ads airing on Super Bowl Sunday. Check out this sneak preview of the year’s most buzzed-about ads.
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Hagel’s Confirmation, and the Return of Sam Nunn
A quarter-century ago, then-Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, pretty much doomed former senator John Tower’s chances of becoming defense secretary for the first President Bush.
Thursday, now-former senator, and …
We the People
The White House petition drive offers a big megaphone for quirky causes. It’s also helping Obama advance his political agenda.
Pulling Out…Without Giving Up
LOGAR PROVINCE — Throughout history, one of the most difficult maneuvers to pull off in combat has been the fighting withdrawal. It’s an aspect of war that plagued battlefield commanders from Napoleon to Lee to Bradley. …