The Arizona senator, who often mentions his time as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam era, graduated from the Academy in 1958 along with John Poindexter and Robert "Bud" McFarlane, two consecutive national security advisers under President Reagan who played a role in the Iran-Contra affair.

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It features Phillip Butler, a former Navy pilot, Vietnam prisoner of war and contemporary of McCain's at the Naval Academy and in the POW camps.

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Her review in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences looks at the findings of over 100 studies on Gulf-war illnesses.

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President Bush's speech at the Naval Academy today had two goals: to lay out in more detail how he plans to win the war in Iraq, and to answer critics who say he either has no strategy to win the war or that he's incapable of changing course.

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