Word: ills
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...authorities with conflicting clues. He all too obviously left the Honda Civic of his most recent Texas victim, Noemi Dominguez, near the international bridge on the border, indicating he'd fled into Mexico. Yet his suspected depredations also point north of Texas. Last week investigators were dispatched to Gorham, Ill., where George Morber, 80, and his daughter Carolyn Frederick, 52, were found beaten to death. They lived alongside railroad tracks. Ramirez is also wanted for questioning in the 1997 assault and murder of Christopher Maier, 21, a University of Kentucky student, who was slain as he was walking with...
...look. From a helicopter, the swaths of destroyed houses looked like crude blueprints, their remaining walls showing every bedroom, some with beds still inside. "Hopefully, we won't have to do any of the fighting we've trained for," said Lance Corporal James Palubicki, 21, of Crystal Lake, Ill. "We just want to help the refugees come out of the mountains and get back to their homes...
...Walter Kirn's article "The Danger of Suppressing Sadness" [VIEWPOINT, May 31], a factual error created the false impression that NAMI, the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill--which you mistakenly referred to as the National Association for Mental Illness--considers feelings of being "specially connected to God" as a possible symptom of manic depression...
Eighty percent of the population is mentally ill at some given time, and all of us are mentally ill to a degree. By the way, the term mental illness is an anachronism; it should more correctly be called brain biochemical dysfunction. The majority of Americans, including some of the supposed intellectually sophisticated, don't have a clue as to the pervasiveness of the problem. JOHN M.R. KUHN, M.D. Rothschild...
...biological brain disorders, severe mental illnesses can be treated with medication, but other factors also are important. Although delusions of grandeur, in which some people may believe that they are God or, conversely, the devil, sometimes mark the manic phase of bipolar disorders, NAMI believes spiritual faith can play a critical role in an individual's recovery and renewal. For more information about mental illness, readers can call (800) 950-6264. LAURIE FLYNN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Arlington...