Former U.S. Army Specialist Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Taking Bribes While Deployed in Afghanistan
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Sacramento, California - A former specialist with the U.S. Army stationed at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Gardez, Afghanistan, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for accepting a $20,000 bribe from a truck driver in exchange for allowing him to take thousands of gallons of fuel from the base.
ICE Homeland Security Investigations resident agent in charge remembers the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
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New Orleans, Louisiana - Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 29, 2005 at 6:10 a.m. Less than two hours later, the levees overtopped, flooding the city, and the death count began to mount.
On Eid al-Adha
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Washington, DC - Secretary of State John Kerry: "Teresa and I extend our best wishes to Muslims around the world for a blessed Eid al-Adha. We congratulate the nearly three million Muslims – including thousands of Americans – who are performing Hajj this year in fulfillment of one of the fundamental pillars of their faith.
Inexpensive new catalysts can be fine-tuned
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Researchers at MIT and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new type of catalyst that can be tuned to promote desired chemical reactions, potentially enabling the replacement of expensive and rare metals in fuel cells.
How the brain encodes time and place
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - When you remember a particular experience, that memory has three critical elements - what, when, and where. MIT neuroscientists have now identified a brain circuit that processes the “when” and “where” components of memory.
Siberian Traps likely culprit for end-Permian extinction
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Cambridge, Massachusetts - Around 252 million years ago, life on Earth collapsed in spectacular and unprecedented fashion, as more than 96 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land species disappeared in a geological instant. The so-called end-Permian mass extinction - or more commonly, the “Great Dying” - remains the most severe extinction event in Earth’s history.
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