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...today than eight years ago." Why is it higher? "I think it's only natural you're going to see that as soldiers come back [from war], you know, with the dwell time that they have [before returning to war], that we're going to have a higher rate." Last week, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said pressure on the Army means that for the next two years, soldiers will continue to ship off to their next combat tour without sufficient rest at home...
...Chiarelli has singled out abuse of alcohol and prescription drugs by soldiers as a mental-health issue that can lead to suicide. "I think there's a link to substance abuse in some of the issues we're seeing," Chiarelli said last month. A recent Army study shows that the percentage of soldiers in Afghanistan taking antidepressants and other mental-health drugs nearly tripled - from 3.5% to 9.8% - between their first and third deployments...
...fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in Texas, is a psychiatrist and Army major. David Coleman Headley, who allegedly plotted to bomb a Danish newspaper and has been implicated in the Mumbai attacks, is a Chicago businessman. And the five young Virginia men who were detained in Pakistan last week have only their youth in common with Zazi: two are sons of businessmen, and the group's supposed leader, Ramy Zamzam, is a Howard University dental student. (The five men have not yet been charged, but Pakistani officials allege that they hoped to seek combat training in order to fight against...
...could hardly describe the act as "isolated." The political climate in the country is edgier than ever, and Berlusconi's love-him-or-hate-him effect on the electorate has only grown stronger over the past eight months in the wake of a sex scandal and renewed legal battles. Last month, Interior Minister Roberto Maroni demanded that Facebook disable a user page called "Killing Berlusconi" that had attracted thousands of friends and fans in just a few weeks. (See a photo-essay on Silvio Berlusconi and the politics...
Classes have been frequently closed, and running battles - mostly nonviolent scrambles - have occurred on campus grounds. Even the famous July 1999 student protests, known in Iran by their initial date in the Persian calendar - the 18th of Tir - did not last this long...