North Korea. “Images and accounts of the North Korean gulag become sharper, more harrowing and more accessible with each passing year. A distillation of testimony from survivors and former guards, newly published by the Korean Bar Association, details the daily lives of 200,000 political prisoners estimated to be in the camps.”
Hispanic worker deaths. “The number of Hispanic workers who die on the job has risen, even as the overall number of workplace deaths has declined, according to federal statistics.”
U.S. war deaths. “U.S. troops have now departed almost completely from the streets of Iraq's cities, and Prime Minister Nouri Maliki plans to visit the graves of American soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery during a trip to Washington this week and to offer a personal 'thank you' to the men and women who gave their lives for the sake of a new Iraq.”
Quote of the day. "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." Astronaut Neil Armstrong, as he took his first step onto the surface of the moon, 40 years ago today. (Today’s news on the commemoration, Washington Post)
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