• As his family lived close to Greenham Common in Berkshire - a former air-force base where nuclear-armed US planes were stationed in the 1980s - Mr Cameron said he had also been aware of the arguments about nuclear weapons and Britain's defence.

    BBC: UK Politics

  • Seems like a simple lesson (the first few years of your career constitute an eight-hour-a-day test, FYI), but the hilariously haughty and utterly off-base email from a former lifeguard to his old boss published by Deadspin shows that not all young ladder climbers have grasped this logic.

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  • Thursdays tend to be party nights in Medellin, Colombia's third-largest city and former power base of the late cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar.

    CNN: Car bomb kills 7 in Colombia

  • From December 1997 to June 1998, the Philippine Centennial Exposition, showcasing the country's past, present and future, will be held on a 60-hectare site in the former Clark air base, northeast of Manila.

    CNN: Glancing Back

  • The government says it has secured 1, 250km (750 miles) of the frontier, and has taken the former Unita base of Jamba in the extreme south-east of Angola.

    BBC: Namibia vows to catch tourist killers

  • In Strasbourg, a former Jospin minister was ousted from her power base by 41-year-old Fabienne Keller.

    ECONOMIST: France

  • One 23-year-old former cocktail waitress used her San Francisco job site as a base for pursuing her graphic design career.

    CNN: Sneaky 'daylighters' risk firing by working extra jobs

  • "(3) They can also use this base to "set up networks of pro-Iranian groups in Bosnia and other parts of the former Yugoslavia that will assist Tehran in breaking what the Iranian government views as a U.S.-imposed embargo of Iran.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • Catcher Russell Martin, a former 20-steal player, is hitting .177 and isn't on base enough to steal consistently.

    WSJ: The Yankees Shalt Not Steal

  • Two sailors reported that Dorner, a former Navy lieutenant, approached them at the San Diego-area Point Loma Naval Base, and local police allege he attempted to steal a boat.

    CNN: Los Angeles puts up $1 million reward for Dorner

  • Two sailors also reported Dorner, a former Navy lieutenant, approached them at the San Diego-area Point Loma Naval Base, and local police allege he attempted to steal a boat.

    CNN: LAPD to review firing of ex-cop it's hunting

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