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Athletes busy with lesser global events

Jul. 16, 2009
Olympic athletes generally embrace the theme of "It's not every four years, it's every day" in their approach to their sports. That's both accurate and admirable but the year after an Olympic Games is nevertheless a hard sell on several fronts. For one, the...
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Veterans etch the names of their friends inscribed on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War on May 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. More than 58,000 names of the servicemen who were killed or missing in the war are engraved on The Wall. UPI/Pat Benic