The U.S. Air Force has halted a presentation for missile launch officers on the ethics of nuclear weapons because of objections to its religious content. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation said it was approached by 31 officers upset by the briefing, CNN reported Thursday. Chaplains at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California had been doing the briefing for almost two decades.
"There were several things that they found disgusting," Mikey Weinstein, who founded the watchdog group, said. "The first was the fact that there is actually a slide that makes it clear that they're trying to teach that, under fundamentalist Christian doctrine, war is a good thing."
Weinstein said he and others in the foundation were "literally blown away" by some of the slides. One quoted Revelations describing Jesus Christ as a "mighty warrior."
The Pentagon canceled the briefings last week. Senior Air Force officials said they did not know of the content.
The Midwest had the highest mold count for the season Wednesday and an air alert was issued for the Midwest, a Chicago-area allergist says. 
Healthier diets including vegetables, fruits, whole grains and low-fat dairy products may be too expensive for many U.S. families, researchers say. 
A U.S. study questions the theory that early humans evolved in closed woodland in Africa and then moved to open savannah as they become bipedal. 
Assessments of human impact on a natural environment aren't broad enough because they don't see effects on neighboring habitats, an Israeli researcher says. 
British physicists say the theory that our universe is contained inside a bubble, just one of multiple bubble universes in a "multiverse," can now be tested. 
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Arizona has submitted a bid for the 2015 Super Bowl, after declining to bid last year for the 2014 game due to economic concerns, officials said. 
The Oklahoma Sooners have been installed as the pre-season No. 1 in the USA Today Coaches Poll, which was released Thursday. 
Former NBA player Darius Miles was arrested at the St. Louis airport for allegedly trying to bring a loaded firearm through security, authorities said. 
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Philadelphia defensive end Mike Patterson, who had a seizure at practice, has been diagnosed with a rain brain condition and his return to play is unknown. 
A new rifle-mounted laser range finder and sight is to be qualified and manufactured under a contract awarded by the U.S. Army. 
New York City has renewed a contract with Northrop Grumman for operations and maintenance of its wireless network for public safety and other city operations. 
Britain's Defense Infrastructure Organization is developing a prime contract for management of the country's military training ranges. 
Vietnam's marine police have taken delivery of the first of three Airbus Military C212-400 light STOL aircraft. 
The use of wind energy among EU members is expected to triple by the end of the decade, the European Wind Energy Association predicts. 
Nearly half of the companies known to have worked in the Iranian energy sector recently halted commercial work there, a U.S. agency reported. 
Royal Dutch Shell said it was responsible for two oil spills in the Niger Delta and is preparing for the consequences as outlined in Nigerian law. 
The lack of significant oil production from war-torn Libya might lead to good fortune for post-war Iraq, an analyst said. 
Pakistan's first 50-megawatt gasified Thar coal reserves project is nearly complete. 
South Korea is to build a liquefied petroleum gas facility in Nigeria. 
A Miami beekeeper said he removed the second largest hive he has encountered in his 20-year career -- about 3 million bees -- from a home. 
Police in Washington state said a suspect used his genitals as a puppet while standing over an air conditioner intake at an apartment complex. 
