Monday, November 06, 2006

Army Recruiters Accused of Misleading Students to Get Them to Enlist


An ABC News undercover investigation showed Army recruiters telling students that the war in Iraq was over, in an effort to get them to enlist.

ABC News and New York affiliate WABC equipped students with hidden video cameras before they visited 10 Army recruitment offices in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.


"Nobody is going over to Iraq anymore?" one student asks a recruiter.


"No, we're bringing people back," he replies.


"We're not at war. War ended a long time ago," another recruiter says.


Last year, the Army suspended recruiting nationwide to retrain recruiters following hundreds of allegations of improprieties.

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The Dog Who Loved to Suck on Toads


A dog may be man's best friend. But one dog, Lady, decided she needed more friends -- and she found plenty in the knot of toads living at the local pond. A suburban family's secret struggle with an uncommon addiction comes to light in this personal essay by NPR's Laura Mirsch.

Lady "was really perky, and happy, and generally excited to see you when you came in the door every day," recalls Andrew Mirsch.

But that was before the Mirsch family moved into a new house.

"We noticed Lady spending an awful lot of time down by the pond in our backyard," Laura Mirsch recalls.

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