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Army baby boom on the way
Fort Campbell, Tennessee, is getting ready for its next baby boom following the return of thousands of soldiers to the Army post after deployment in Iraq. The surge in deliveries -- which is expected to peak to 250 in June from a current level of about a dozen per day -- will come about nine months after 20,000 soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division returned from a yearlong deployment. Blanchfield Army Community Hospital is currently receiving nearly a dozen new expecting mothers each day. The projected boom will shatter the hospital's previous record of 202 in October 2004.
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Snowzilla II in the making
Snowzilla the snowman is back -- bigger than ever. The original Snowzilla towered 4.8m over Billy Powers' yard in east Anchorage, Alaska, last winter. Now with snow piling up over the past week, Powers is resurrecting the giant figure, supersized. This time he expects it to tower about 7.5m, top hat and all, he said on Monday. "It's a work in progress," Powers said. He expected to have completed Snowzilla II by yesterday. Last year's version, with Alaskan Amber beer bottles for eyes, drew scores of photo-snapping crowds and TV crews from Japan and Russia before it melted in the spring.
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