Time magazine raised the issue again this week, citing a March 5, 2003, e-mail from an Army Corps of Engineers official to another Pentagon employee.

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Earlier this year, I received an e-mail from the family of Army Specialist Brandon Stout of Michigan.

NPR: President Bush's Speech on Iraq, Sept. 13, 2007

Earlier this year, I received an e-mail from the family of Army Spc.

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In 1941, mail was stolen from an army post office in St Helier by a group of teenagers as an act of defiance against the occupying Nazi forces.

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Last spring, however, Gloria Mark at UC Irvine and collaborating U.S. Army scientists produced another intriguing study involving e-mail.

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Army bomb experts were called to examine the package, which had been taken from the Royal Mail sorting office.

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