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Cicero: Joe Froggers truly were a sailor's delight
It's a bit of an oddity that we've had two requests in recent weeks for recipes that had the word frog in them - but did not in any way involve amphibians. First we learned of a Hungarian crepe that was nicknamed frog's eyes, and now readers have inundated us with recipes and anecdotes about Joe Froggers, a big New England spice cookie that dates back to colonial times.

Holmes: Limit punishment for USS Enterprise
I have acutely mixed feelings about the kerfuffle engulfing Capt. Owen Honors, who was fired as captain of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise last week. On New Year's Day, the Virginian-Pilot newspaper revealed that Honors supervised the production of - and emceed - raunchy videos broadcast to the ship's crew in 2006-07, when he was the executive officer, or second-in-command. Honors left the ship to command USS Mount Whitney before returning as skipper.

In the Spotlight: USS George H.W. Bush is $6.8B insurance policy
OFFSHORE FROM NORFOLK, Va. - If the Navy tells you to buckle up, you'd best cinch the strap as if you were Rambo going into action. When the wheels of the C-2 Greyhound touch down on the USS George H.W. Bush, there's no time to fiddle with the harness.

Researchers using sonar to map old shipwrecks
NORFOLK, Va. -- World War II shipwrecks off North Carolina and Civil War shipwrecks in Virginia are being analyzed with sonar technology so sophisticated that the public could one day view near photographic images in detail even better than diving at some of the sites could provide.

Sheen kicks off 'Torpedo of Truth' tour in Detroit
DETROIT — Charlie Sheen has been everywhere lately, venting in interviews and online postings about being fired from his hit TV show, and carrying on about the "tiger blood" coursing through his veins and the "trolls" who derailed his career.