An hour and a half down the road from Austin, and occupying 340 square miles of semi-arid Central Texas terrain, sits one of the world's largest military installations - Fort Hood. Some 50,000 soldiers work on post, making it the largest single-site employer in Texas. As of 2006, 85% of those troops had served at least one tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Siobhan Fallon's You Know When the Men Are Gone [Book Reviews]
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Strange Days, Here We Are [Extra Extra]
- The BBC's coverage of Obama’s memorial address at Fort Hood on Tuesday. (This story is part of the BBC's extensive coverage of the tragedy.)
- Need a kidney? Make sure you tell your priest about your needs! It worked for this Dallas woman.
- Prison inmates found a stash of weed hidden in a delivery of prison-bound produce. This was after the fruit had already been searched by police officers/pot-sniffing dogs!
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