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...Mentally Ill Die Younger...
...county government upwards of $2 million each, Houle says, have helped reduce the number of death penalty cases. Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions striking down the death penalty in certain kinds of cases - the rape of a child - and concerns about the legality of executing mentally retarded or mentally ill individuals have also slowed the number of capital cases being brought. With broader legal options, the most execution-prone state of the union may increasingly be opting for some other punishment than a life for a life...
...Under the direction of the FBI, the informant befriended Mohamed Shnewer and his friends, Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka and Serdar Tatar. For 16 months, he recorded conversations with the men, some of which included vague allusions to jihad and an ill-formed plan to attack the Fort Dix military base. The men watched jihadist videos and took trips to a shooting range. Omar drove one of the defendants to do surveillance of possible targets, and he offered to buy illegal weapons for the group. No attack was carried out, but the defendants were arrested in May 2007 after...
...patient rooms also have large windows that provide views of nature and lots of natural light - which cuts electricity costs and is associated with high staff morale and better patient outcomes. "Our green efforts are done under the premise that we have two patients, the environment and the ill patient," says Colangelo, "and the ill patient can't get well without improving our environment...
...consequences of a Daewoo failure looked catastrophic. Daewoo, it turned out, had about $75 billion in debt and other liabilities - a hit the Korean banking sector could ill afford. The banks had just been yanked from the abyss by a government bailout (sound familiar?) made necessary by the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis. And the timing also could not have been worse: the economy was emerging from its deepest recession since Korea's accelerated growth began in the early 1960s. Arguably, a Daewoo collapse was more threatening to Korea than, say, a GM bankruptcy would be to the U.S., simply...