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TEHRAN (FNA) - Iranian Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari on Saturday reiterated Tehran's plan to deploy naval vessels near the maritime borders of the United States, and said Americans are not entitled to opposition as all nations have the right of voyage in international waters. Speaking to FNA here in Tehran on Saturday, Admiral Sayyari said Iran is serious about deployment near the United States maritime borders and this rigidness has worried the US officials. "Americans are worried about themselves. The Iranian army is present in free waters and will continue its presence," he said. He said international rules...

"I am reminded of the time I saw my 3-year-old daughter trying and failing to tie her shoes. She got angry. Still, she kept trying. "'This is difficult,' she concluded. ‘But I like difficult.'" A child grittier than Congressional leaders, spunkier than people twenty times her age. She's Bill Gates' daughter, but that's immaterial. Her mother Melinda wrote those words, but that's immaterial, too. What matters is what Melinda Gates also said to other philanthropists about starting the Gates Foundation. "It turns out that her parents like difficult, too. And I suspect that you all like difficult, which is why...

Olympian Silken Laumann says the solution to childhood obesity is simple: play As evidence of how far off track modern childhood has strayed, a new book on the importance of play offers detailed instructions for such classic children's games as tag, hopscotch, hide-and-seek and capture-the-flag. "The schoolyard games have been lost. Kids don't know how to play four-square, a lot of people don't know how to play hopscotch," says Silken Laumann, who over the next couple of weeks will be conducting sessions across the country instructing parents on the rules of the games most of them played as children. The...