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AQUILLA, Ohio - It's quite the man cave. Jimmy Grey says he's been out of work for almost a year and needed a project to stay busy. So with the heavy snowfall this winter, the 25-year-old labourer got to work on an extreme igloo in his family's yard in Aquilla, about 30 miles (50 kilometres) east of Cleveland. His four-room creation has 6-foot (nearly 2-meter) ceilings and an entertainment room. He powers the TV with an extension cord plugged into an outlet in the garage. He also ran wires for cable television with surround-sound stereo. Grey told The Plain Dealer...

President Obama does not have the one-on-one relationship with Gen. McChrystal that President Bush did with Gen. Petraeus, but rather a more traditional one along the chain of command. Reporting from Washington - President Obama and his predecessor differ significantly in their approach to America's wars. They differ at least as much in their relationship with their top battlefield commander. During the Bush administration, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, the then-ground commander in Iraq, assumed the role of a trusted advisor who frequently visited the White House or talked to the president by phone.

Mon, Aug 26 2002 8:34 AM AEST Archaeology find redefines Fijian history of first peoples The discovery of a skeleton on a Fijian island has fuelled speculation that the first people to inhabit the archipelago arrived 3,000 years ago, 500 years earlier than previously thought. Prominent South Pacific islands' geoscientist William Dickinson, from the University of Arizona, described the find as "the most important scientific discovery of its kind in Fiji for the past 30 years". Discovered by 15 University of the South Pacific geography students at Moturiki Island, the two-metre skeleton is believed to be of Solomon Islands origin....