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Army helps vets with ‘invisible wounds’ find jobs
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Richard Martin keeps a rearview mirror on his desk to prevent co-workers from startling him in his cubicle. The walls are papered with sticky notes to help him remember things, and he wears noise-canceling headphones to keep his easily distracted mind focused.
Martin, an Army veteran who was nearly blown up on three occasions in Iraq, once feared that post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury would keep him from holding down a civilian job, despite years of corporate experience and an MBA.
“Here I am with this background and I’m having problems with my memory,” said Martin, a 48-year-old engineer and former National Guard major who now works for Northrop Grumman, helping to devise ways to thwart remote-detonated bombs.
Aggies debate bonfire decade after deadly collapse
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M University’s reverence for tradition lured Tim Kerlee Jr. to the storied campus.
Kerlee, from Germantown, Tenn., had visited 21 schools but knew A&M was for him the moment he stepped on campus, said his mother, Janice Kerlee.
“He wrote me an e-mail one time. He was talking about Silver Taps (a monthly tradition where lifelong Aggies who died the previous month are honored) and how moved he was by the fact that all these students were out there and didn’t even know that person but because he was an Aggie, they were paying tribute to him,” she said.
Fewer whooping cranes expected to winter in Texas
ARANSAS NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, Texas (AP) — As the first of the area’s beloved, endangered whooping cranes make their annual descent into the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, it’s likely there will be fewer of the tourist draws to whoop and holler over.
Shuttle crew includes surgeon and former NFL pick
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first orthopedic surgeon in space is flying aboard shuttle Atlantis, along with two former college football players, one of them an NFL pick, and the grandson of Amelia Earhart’s personal photographer.
Splash! NASA moon strikes found significant water
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It turns out there’s lots of water on the moon — at least near the lunar south pole.
The discovery announced Friday comes from an analysis of data from a spacecraft NASA intentionally crashed into the moon last month.
“Indeed, yes, we found water. And we didn’t find just a little bit, we found a significant amount,” said Anthony Colaprete, the mission’s principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
The lunar impact kicked up at least 25 gallons of water and that’s only what scientists can see, Colaprete said.
Having an abundance of water on the moon would make it easier to set up a base camp for astronauts by providing drinking water and an ingredient for rocket fuel.
Former Vietnam POW gets wedding ring back
ADDISON, Texas (AP) — It still fits.
26 rare whooping cranes at Texas refuge
AUSTWELL, Texas (AP) — Specialists at the Aransas (uh-RAN’-zuhs) National Wildlife Refuge in Texas expect at least 247 endangered whooping cranes to spend the winter.
Tom Hanks-produced ’4-D’ film comes to WWII Museum
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Actor Tom Hanks says viewers are in for a realistic “wartime experience” when the new film he produced, “Beyond All Boundaries,” opens at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans on Friday.
Ex-stripper, Jack Ruby reunited in mural
DALLAS (AP) — After Jack Ruby made a huge splash by killing Lee Harvey Oswald on live television, Joyce Gordon became a ripple.

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