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School goes from backdrop to center stage
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt was an unexpected burst of glory, and the 1,600 students at Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood were basking in it Friday. None of the youngsters knew for certain why a 50-foot-wide image of the front of their school was projected Thursday...Tags: Democratic Party, David Graham, Jimmy Smits, Gaming, Documentary (genre)
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Surprise: VA hospitals get high marks
BETSY MCCAUGHEY is chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (hospitalinfection.org).THE TYPICAL hospital patient is given the wrong medication or the wrong dose at least once a day, according to the Institute of Medicine, a research organization that advises Congress. The good news is that these mistakes are less likely to happen at a...Tags: Defense, Death, Health and Medical Professionals, Healthcare Provider, Pharmaceuticals
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Military thinks twice on fortified trucks
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersIt was just what American soldiers had been longing for -- a patrol vehicle designed to withstand the powerful roadside bombs that have killed more service members than any other insurgent weapon in the Iraq war. But as the Defense Department hits its...Tags: Explosions, Military Equipment, U.S. Department of Defense, Wars and Interventions, Transportation Accidents
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Greener pastures for VA land
Los Angeles is chronically short of park space, a civic failure that generations of leaders have only glancingly addressed. In 1930, the brilliant but ignored Olmsted-Bartholomew plan envisioned a county where every resident enjoyed easy access to...Tags: Defense, Henry A Waxman, Prosecution, Eli Broad, George W. Bush
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The Journey Through Trauma
Times Staff WriterAs Lance Cpl. Ryan Buchter lay bleeding in the Iraqi desert, his fate hinged on the efficiency of a medical lifeline that stretches halfway around the world. From that moment forward, hundreds of strangers would work to save him. Buchter's platoon was in...Tags: X-rays, Interior Policy, Vehicles, Air and Space Accidents, Wages and Pensions
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Injured in Iraq, a Soldier Reclaims His Independence
Times Staff WriterBryan Anderson emerged from an elevator in the airport terminal here, a diminished figure in a wheelchair. Both legs were gone, and most of his left arm — all severed when a roadside bomb hidden in a curb demolished the Humvee he was driving in...Tags: Explosions, Transportation Accidents, Wars and Interventions, Water Skiing, Gaming
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'Body Politic'
Times Theater CriticWendy Hoffman (Kristina Lear), an earnest screenwriter with an attractive, low-key style, wants to tell the story of injured vets at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Capt. Gray Whitrock (Michael James Reed), a strapping military guy with a prosthetic foot...Tags: Defense, Health, Armed Forces, Hospitals and Clinics, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Antiwar film has Phil Donahue in attack mode
CAUSE CÉLÈBRENEARLY four years ago, when Phil Donahue, the onetime king of daytime television, set to make a documentary film about the war in Iraq, he knew he'd be telling a story of shattered hearts. What he never guessed was that the project would break his own....Tags: Defense, PBS (tv network), Osama bin Laden, Cinema Industry, HBO (tv network)
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MILITARY DEATHS
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Iraq or who died at a U.S. military hospital of an illness contracted in Iraq: Christopher D. Loza, 24, of Abilene, Texas; sergeant, Army. Loza died of a non-...Tags: Defense, Death, U.S. Department of Defense, Hospitals and Clinics, Wars and Interventions
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The politics of defense
Today, Carter and Korb begin their Dust-Up with a discussion on the extent to which Congress should intervene in military matters. Later in the week, they'll discuss the Air Force tanker contract, torture policies and more. Where have you gone, Congress?...Tags: Defense, Democratic Party, The Washington Post, Afghanistan, Carl Levin
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Military deaths
The Defense Department last week identified the following American military personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq or who died at a military hospital of their injuries: Randy S. Agno, 29, of Pearl City, Hawaii; staff sergeant, Army. Agno died May 8...Tags: Woodstock (McHenry, Illinois), U.S. Department of Defense, Transportation Accidents, Baghdad (Iraq), Army National Guard
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Blogs: All the noise that fits
The late Christopher Lasch once wrote that public affairs generally and journalism in particular suffered not from too little information but from entirely too much. What was needed, he argued, was robust debate. Lasch, a historian by training but a...Tags: Defense, Central Intelligence Agency, The Washington Post, Hospitals and Clinics, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks
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