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Best jobs in America
CNNMoney rates the top 50 careers with great pay and growth prospects.
Top 5 Jobs – Average Income:
- Systems Engineer – $87,100
- Physicians Assistant – $90,900
- College Professor – $70,400
- Nurse Practitioner – $85,200
- IT Project Manager – $98,700
Highest Paid:
Anesthesiologist – Median income = $408,000
Least Stressful:
Education training consultant – Median income = $77,800
Cheating Death: Heart stopped for 15 minutes
Program Note: Based on Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s new book “Cheating Death,” hear about the medical miracles that are saving lives in the face of death, on a special series all this week on "American Morning."
McCain: Avoid 'historic' error in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Sen. John McCain said any added military deployment in Afghanistan smaller than the 40,000 troops reportedly requested by the top U.S. commander there "would be an error of historic proportions."
[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/10/11/mccain.afghanistan/art.mccain.sotu.cnn.jpg caption="Sen. John McCain talks with CNN's John King about Afghanistan, health care reform, and Sarah Palin."]
Asked whether he thought the war in Afghanistan could be won with fewer troops than Gen. Stanley McChrystal has reportedly requested, McCain said, "I do not."
The Arizona Republican, who was defeated by President Obama in the 2008 presidential election, spoke in a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
"I think the great danger now is a half-measure, sort of a - you know, try to please all ends of the political spectrum," McCain told CNN chief national correspondent John King. "And, again, I have great sympathy for the president, making the toughest decisions that presidents have to make, but I think he needs to use deliberate speed."
Disregarding requirements that have been "laid out and agreed to" by Central Command head Gen. David Petraeus and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen "would be an error of historic proportions," McCain said when asked whether 10,000 or 20,000 additional troops in Afghanistan would suffice.
Report: Sailors hogtied, fed dog treats
Just the thought of it is shocking: U.S. military personnel tying up and ridiculing a young man, hosing him down, forcing him to simulate a sex act with another man, and then throwing him into a feces-filled dog's cage at the canine unit – all while being videotaped.
The alleged victims are American servicemen – and it describes the hazing and abuse allegedly inflicted on sailors at the military canine unit in Bahrain in 2005 and 2006. One of them, former dog handler Joseph Rocha, says the abuse occurred daily during his two-year deployment.
“I could not wrap my head around the degradation and the barbarity of it,” says Rocha, who was 18 when he joined the Navy’s Military Working Dog Division in Bahrain in 2005. Because he is gay, he followed the military's rules and kept his homosexuality under wraps. But although, he says, no one in his unit knew he was gay, he still suffered.
Rocha says others, including his chief, suspected he was gay when he showed no interest in sexual escapades with women. He became a prime target, he says. “It was everyday for 28 months, for 16 hours a day. Nothing I did was good enough; all of my achievements were overshadowed by ridicule of my sexuality.”
He describes being ordered by his chief “to get on my knees pretend to have oral sex with another service member. … I was instructed ... to act more queen, more queer, more homosexual, more believable.” Rocha and several others from the Bahrain unit who spoke to CNN say the hazing was widespread – gays, straights, and women in his unit were targets, too.
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