In the Skyrim game, players can slay dragons or plunder tombs, but also get married or do tasks like chop firewood or cook.

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Across the heavily fortified American bases in Iraq, men and women like Salim Khan cook the food, clean the dishes, chop the vegetables, take out the garbage and clean the latrines.

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