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Stop-Loss is a term Peirce says comes from the financial world but is being used by the military to describe the involuntary extension of a service…

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Vista has passed what it believes is the first ordinance of its kind in the country. The new law requires people who hire short-term workers to register with the city, display the registration in the

A constitutional amendment to ban flag burning fell one vote short of the two-thirds majority necessary to pass Tuesday. The Senate vote was 66 to 34 in favor of the amendment. The amendment has already passed in the House.

Now if any of you are thinking that silent movies are filled with over-emoting heroines and moustache-twirling villains, well think again. At least in the case of John Ford it's not true. Viewers may be surprised at how graceful many of the performances are. And there's a genuine magic and beauty to these images that are nearly a hundred years old. There's something about seeing the medium when it was young that's exciting. Even though Ford had made dozens of silent films before 1924, you sense that he is still experimenting with the medium and trying to push its boundaries.

“Lars and the Real Girl” (opening Oct. 26 throughout San Diego) uses a sex doll from the San Marcos company RealDoll as partial inspiration for its story.

They say an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. But when it comes to HIV/AIDS, there is no cure. That makes prevention priceless. At the International AIDS Society conference in Sydney, Aust

A Look at the Zombie Genre

Among the thousands of projects undertaken to reconstruct Iraq, one case offers a good microcosm of the challenges and missteps that have bedeviled the multi-billion dollar rebuilding effort. Parsons, a California company, was awarded a contract in 2004 to build 151 health-care centers. No more than 20 were finished.

In a news conference on Monday, President Bush reiterated his vow to support the fledgling Iraqi democracy and said withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq prematurely would send a message of defeat to other Mideast nations.