In 2003 the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team conducted the largest combat parachute assault since World War II. They were welcomed on the ground by thousands of cheering Kurds.
Now these guys are in Afghanistan. Matt at Blackfive describes their conditions:
The Sky Soldiers have trudged through up to seven feet of snow on patrols day in [...]

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UPDATE: Democrat and Chronicle
The scale of Sunday’s chain-reaction pileup on Interstate 390 is best described by the numbers:
Thirty-six tangled vehicles.
Twenty-five people injured, including one teenager who later died.
Wind gusts up to 37 mph and blowing snow made seeing past the hood virtually impossible. [snip]
Buses that were headed to the Rochester Institute of Technology to pick [...]

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Romney doing better locally than statewide. Ron Paul is benefiting from his Line 1 placement on the ballot followed by TWO!!! blank lines.
McCain 40.4%
Romney 37.3%
Huckleberry 12.7%
Ron Paul 6.5%
Rudy 3.2%
Rochester NY and Monroe County

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McCain 40.2%
Romney 37.6%
Huckleberry 13.0%
Ron Paul 6.6%
Rudy 2.7%
Rochester NY and Monroe County

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McCain 39.8%
Romney 37.6%
Huckleberry 13.6%
Ron Paul 6.4%
Rudy 2.6%
Rochester NY and Monroe County

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Romney and McCain tied at 38.6%.

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40% to McCain’s 38%

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I held my nose, and I voted.

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The Democrat & Chronicle examines the aging of our educators in the Rochester, N.Y. / Monroe County region. The article also looks at the aging issue in higher education, though here I would expect the problem to be less since it is not uncommon for college professors to teach well into their seventies while nearly [...]

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Wellsville Daily Reporter
The Happy Hookers Knitting Group of Wellsville completed a charity knitting project during the months of August and September. Members of the knitting group were assisted by many local Wellsville knitters. The project consisted of hand made knitted helmet liners to be distributed to the local Allegany troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. [...]

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