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...mental illness is likely higher due to a variety of causes, including the Iraq war starting in 2003. But, more importantly, lost earning potential is only one of the many indirect costs of mental illness in American society. Social Security payments, homelessness and incarceration add to that economic burden, as well as direct costs such as medications and physicians' care. "The actual costs are probably higher that what we have estimated," Kessler says...
...trial ever opens, it is expected jurors will be shown the video. One odd burden for prosecutors: They must prove that the female in the video was actually a minor at the time of the recording. The alleged victim, now 23 years old, has denied she is in the video. However, prosecutors are expected to call to the witness stand several people, including the alleged victim's relatives, to identify her as the person in the video and establish that she was a minor. In another strange twist, the Chicago Sun-Times reported last weekend that prosecutors will also call...
...receiving adequate attention. They are being swept aside for the more glamorous (and sometimes deceiving) stories of growth, technology and democratic participation in India. A visible minority is benefiting from India’s economic and political structure; an unseen and unheard majority is bearing the disproportionate burden the social costs associated with these gains...
...likely to be slow and painful for Elisabeth and her children. The Austrian teenager Natascha Kampusch, who was held hostage for eight years, has said her own traumatic experience and suffering would stay with her for the rest of her life. The Fritzl family, in addition, has the huge burden of incest to deal with. Experts suggest that Felix, the youngest, may have the best chances of living a normal life. Kepplinger said the boy was a "very affectionate, bright child," who sticks close to his mother's side. The family is being given legal advice about the possibility...
...Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 decision that an Indiana law requiring government-issued photo identification at the polls is constitutional. We believe that both sides of the Supreme Court’s argument—that the law does not place an undue burden on citizens’ ability to vote and that this law protects against the imminent threat of voter fraud—are misguided. This law, which is one of the nation’s toughest, does not allow voters to use utility or phone bills or employee identification at the polls...