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This week in American power projection: the map was wrong, the dorms were fine, and the travel card was for official purposes.

Story Roundup

Pentagon casualties, metric improvement, and Fat Leonard’s least dignified phase.

Situation Report

A State Department map that relocated most of Africa, one ambitious government travel card, and 5,200 medical students moved from dorms that definitely do not have mold.

Lorax shot in the thorax

DAMASCUS, Syria—

At the far end of Damascus where blood rivers run red and the streets are all filled with remains of the dead, once lived the Lorax.

The Lorax was peaceful, performing his trade. From truffula trees woven baskets he made.

Life had been quiet until one Arab Spring, when violence and chaos a revolution did bring. The streets that were lined with fig trees and palms now were all filled with bullets and bombs.

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