Bad weather halts South Korean search for sailors

1,200-ton patrol ship was on patrol when it sank Friday at 9:45 pm. No one knows why the ship sank, so it is still under investigation. There were 104 sailors on board and 58 of those sailors have been rescued. The search for the 46 missing sailors continues in very cold temperatures and dangerous waters. It is being suspected based upon the location of the ship sinking that North Korea my have played some role in the sinking. But officials are down playing the incident and don't want to jump to conclusions.

North and South Korea are still enemies and I think that something like this is just what either of them needs to fight the other. They need a reason and they will find one. Even if this sinking was a complete accident people in the back of their mind are still probably thinking that is was North Korea trying to sabotage them. They need to play it safe and make sure this situation doesn't turn into something bigger.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/03/31/south.korea.missing.sailors/index.html?iref=allsearch

Health bill a huge victory for young adults

The new health care bill was a huge debate in our country for some time. Now that it is passed, it is turning out to be a very good thing for kids around my age. This article explains why it is helping us young adults out. It says it will give us much more coverage than before because we were not covered very well due to our low income but now that is changed and will be much better. It also says that its going to be a huge help for us on our student loans and college expenses. The money saved from this law in the college area will be put to a grant and will help even more with college expenses.

Personally, I did not think this bill was need and I didn't back it up. I thought it was kind of a waste of our taxpayers money. Now that it is passed, though, I am happy with the benefits and changes that are happening that will favor me. I especially enjoy the idea of the help for college students. The fact that kids can stay on their parents' insurance is also very nice because then they will not have to worry about that extra cost while they are going through college and paying for it after. All these things will really help out during those expensive college years and will turn out to be a pretty good thing I suppose but I still dont believe that it should have been passed in the first place.

For more information visit: http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/03/23/williams.healthcare.young/index.html?iref=storysearch

2 wolves shot; tests to determine whether they killed woman

A few days ago Candice Berner was jogging near Chignik Lake, Alaska when she was attacked and killed my two wolves. The suspected wolves were eventually tracked down and killed by authorities from a helicopter. They are now running test to confirmed that they were the wolves that killed Berner. This attack came as quite a surprise to the little community of Chignik Lake of a population of just 105 people. The whole story is such a big deal because this is only the second deadly wolf attack in North America in over half a century.

This story is also a very big surprise to me. I find it very crazy that these two wolves just spontaneously attacked this lady, it is very sad. I find it even more surprising, though, that these two wolves were just tracked down and killed right there on the spot. I feel like they should have been just tranquilized first so tests could have been done before they just went and killed them. If they somehow shot the wrong wolves then that would be very stupid and wrong. I even find it a bit wrong that they had to kill the wolves at all. I think they should have done test first to see if the wolves were okay or were dangerous and then decided to kill them or not. It just does not seem right that killing action had to happen right away.

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Soldier gets Silver Star, reprimand for same battle

In July 2008 there was an attack on a combat outpost in Afghanistan and Army Capt. Matthew Myer was at this outpost. When the attack began Myer called for an air strike to come and help out. About 200 Taliban fighters were coming at the outpost and Myer's very important call to help resulted in him getting a Silver Star. By the time the little battle was over, 9 soldiers were killed and 12 others were injured. After the attack, the U.S. military was angry that the Taliban even got close to the base. They gave Myer and two of his superiors letters of reprimand for allowing the Taliban to attack so easily.

This situation seems extremely unfair in my opinion. The soldiers are already over there fighting for us and when one thing goes wrong, they get hardcore punished for it. There is no way that the attack was at all their fault and even if they could have stopped them, I'm sure there still would have been casualties. They should not be singled out at all in this situation for the punishments. I believe that there really should be no punishment at all but if the army believes there needs to be one then they should figure it out fairly. I mean they are fighting a war so there is going to be casualties so I don't think that punishments need to be handed out every time something bad happens or a soldier dies. The whole situation just seems completely unfair and not right.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/03/12/silver.star.reprimand/index.html?npt=NP1

Suspect kills self in Ohio State shooting, police say

A man killed his manager and himself at Ohio State University at 3:30am this morning 3.9.10. Apparently he was angry over a bad performance review. His name was Nathaniel Brown and was 51 years old, he had worked at the university for 10 years. One other person was shot but only wounded.

This article is very sad but quite ridiculous at the same time. Any time anyone ever takes their own life, or someone else, its very tragic and I can't help but wonder if it was preventable. There are many other things I'm sure that played into this event, like what exactly was said during the review that was given, how he was treated as an employee and most likely there were some mental issues that Brown had. Something must have been very wrong because i can't imagine working with someone for 10 years and then going and shooting them. I think it will be interesting to hear about the details of this situation.

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/09/ohio.state.shooting/index.html