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• Why it's difficult to make a movie from a comic book
  If you want to make an animated film out of a comic book, logic suggests just taking what's on the pages, make it move and slap it on the screen. Not so says Marjane Satrapi. She wrote the best selling "Persepolis" graphic novels and directed an award winning film based on the story.January 18, 2008
• The dilemma of doctors in wartime
  A Navy psychologist recounts the struggles of others, and her own battle with post-traumatic stress disorder, after serving in Iraq.Midmorning, January 18, 2008
• The ethics of exit in Iraq
  Whether or when to remove U.S. troops from Iraq is one of the most difficult challenges the United States faces, and Gerard Powers, director of policy studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, says as it relates to troop withdrawal, some are suffering from a kind of moral myopia.Midday, January 17, 2008
• Representatives back from Iraq
  Midmorning speaks with two Minnesota lawmakers who spent time in Afghanistan and Iraq this winter, surveying Minnesota's role in war.Midmorning, January 16, 2008
• Rep. Walz concludes visit to Pakistan and Afghanistan
  U.S. Rep. Tim Walz has just finished a four-day visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan.January 11, 2008
• Minnesota soldier killed in Iraq
  A soldier who grew up in Wisconsin and recently moved to Minnesota has died in Iraq.January 11, 2008
• What is the impact of the troop surge in Iraq?
  Special reports from National Public Radio reporters Anne Garrels, Guy Raz, Tom Bowman and Corey Flintoff on the current situation in Iraq.Midday, January 11, 2008
• A soldier's view of one of Iraq's bloodiest battlegrounds
  In November 2004, U.S. Army soldiers attempted to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah. A new memoir from a soldier on the ground there describes the battle within a ruined city that was among the most intense and deadly of the war in Iraq.Midmorning, January 8, 2008
• Coleman calls for U.S. to play a new role in Iraq
  Just back from his fifth trip to Iraq, Republican Sen. Norm Coleman says the U.S. goal should be to play a "secondary" military role in Iraq by the end of this year.January 7, 2008
• Soldier from Jordan, Minn., killed in Iraq
  Joshua Anderson was a life-long resident of Jordan, in southern Minnesota. Pfc. Anderson was killed last week when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle.January 4, 2008
• Start of 2008 is deadly in Iraq
  2007 was a deadly year in Iraq, and 2008 has already started with a suicide bombing that killed more than 30 people. Ambassador Barbara Bodine joins Midday to discuss the political, military, economic and humanitarian situation in Iraq.Midday, January 2, 2008
• Happy homecomings and 17 funerals mark Minnesota's involvement in Iraq
  The year 2007 proved to be the deadliest year for U.S. troops fighting in Iraq, with 899 troops killed. Sixteen members of the military with strong Minnesota ties died in Iraq and Afghanistan this past year, along with a military contractor from the state.December 31, 2007
• Pakistan's uncertain future
  Former Pakistani prime minister and opposition leader Benazir Bhutto has been laid to rest in Pakistan, but some fear the fallout from her assassination will further destabilize the country.Midmorning, December 28, 2007
• A teacher looks at war through words
  An English teacher at West Point explains her literary choices for expanding the minds of her student cadets, some of whom will soon become soldiers.Midmorning, December 28, 2007
• VA says Rice Lake clinic to reopen at same site
  The Minneapolis VA Medical Center says it will reopen a permanent primary care clinic for veterans in Rice Lake, Wisconsin, next week. A company under contract to run the clinic abruptly closed it and another in Hayward last week, citing financial problems.December 21, 2007

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