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• Poland formally ends its Iraq mission
DIWANIYAH, Iraq - Poland turned over control of an area south of Baghdad to American troops on Saturday, making it the latest in a string of countries to leave the dwindling U.S.-led coalition. But even as Polish troops head home from Iraq, their ...
• Author: Peace Prizes miss Nobel's intent
Poland's Lech Walesa in 1983; Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli leaders Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres in 1994; Doctors Without Borders in 1999; the South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung in 2000; Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi in ...
• Flu deaths linked to staph infections
Gregory Poland, a Mayo Clinic infectious disease specialist. He was not involved in the federal study, but has worked with a federal vaccine advisory committee and has consulted for vaccine makers. Flu season is just beginning, and this year's vaccine ...
• A low-voltage encounter for presidential rivals
... tax rates (“Let's not raise taxes on anybody today,” McCain said) and an assertive, interventionist foreign policy (both candidates called for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan, and Obama called for American financial aid to Georgia, Poland ...
• Political debates lack TV drama of past
President Gerald Ford was hurt in 1976 when he falsely declared that Poland was not under the domination of the Soviet Union, and Michael Dukakis damaged in 1988 by his clinical answer to a question on how he’d respond to an attack on his wife. Even ...