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Voices - The what ifs of history begin with Pearl Harbor - PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii, March 18 (UPI) -- It is too early to know how the Iran war will turn out. But what if Afghanistan and Iraq are precursors? Then this war may not have a good ending.

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Writing teacher's AI-age task: Teaching students when to struggle -- If you aren't working at it, you're not learning it -- something college students need to understand as AI makes producing work easier.

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