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QUANTICO, Va. A U.S. Marine Corps panel is recommending that an officer be forcibly discharged for failing to supervise a group of snipers who posed for a video while urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.The panel of three colonels issued its ruling Thursday against Capt. James V. Clement after a three-day hearing at Marine Corps Base Quantico. The panel found Clement s performance of duty was substandard. Two lieutenant gen
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You know those gadgets that you can buy at drugstores Back in the early 2000s it was all portable CD players and PC speakers. Now it MP3 players with 2GB of storage and wimpy tablets. And if you ;ve ever done last minute Christmas shopping at a Walgreens you know that the brands start to become recognizable for their no-name-ness. Coby was a staple in that lineup until recently. Now a titan of cheap, sometimes questionable electronics has fallen. Around August, customers contacting Coby to claim on warranties began noticing that the company had gone dark. No one was answering emails or picking up the phones. The company, which once did $400 million a year of gadget business had quietly shut down. Coby was apparently pushed over the edge by losing a contr
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