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...been in danger many times before while covering the bloody breakup of the former Yugoslavia for TIME and for the local newsmagazine Vreme. But this was different: the wars ended years ago, Serbia's former President Slobodan Milosevic is dead and buried, and this was not a combat zone - it was my own apartment in my own hometown. And for the first time, my wife was also a target. Fortunately, our teenage daughter wasn't home at the time...
...services available to him." John Ryan, who heads the Federation of Totally and Permanently Incapacitated Ex-Servicemen and Women, wants the government to fund a study to try to identify veterans at risk of suicide. What troops in Afghanistan and Iraq go through, he says, is what all combat soldiers experience. "When people are subjected to what happens in wars, it's very unhealthy." For veterans in 2007, "we need to do a better...
...able to bolster the al-Maliki government, which has lost six Cabinet ministers, followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, who quit-nominally, at least-over the absence of a withdrawal timetable. Bush could simply say, "I agree with the goal set by Congress. I hope we can have all our combat troops out of Iraq by sometime next year, though we may not be able to do that...
Although the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have ushered in a new generation of graduates with combat experience, they are certainly not the first Harvard students to balance devotion to service and study. The class of 1949 was almost entirely composed of World War II veterans, and evidence of military sacrifice abounds all over campus...
...those normal motor neurons were dying due to the aspect of being surrounded by these mutant [support cells].” Though the identity of the toxin produced by these cells is still a mystery, the researchers are optimistic about the prospects of discovering it and finding drugs to combat it. “You’re looking at anywhere between three and four years,” Przedborski said. Lou Gehrig’s disease is a currently incurable nervous system disease that strikes most sufferers in their 50s. The average victim lives only three to five years...