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...place ought to come with an owner’s manual or at least a map, a whistle, a compass, and a sandwich,” Faust joked...
...while it's tempting to blame our culture--fear of terrorists, too much caffeine, living by BlackBerry--there's a more straightforward explanation for the boom in dejection. In 1980 the American Psychiatric Association published a new definition of depression in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders--usually shortened to DSM--the compendium used by mental-health professionals to make diagnoses. The new definition was a radical departure from the old one, which had described "depressive neurosis" as "an excessive reaction of depression due to an internal conflict or to an identifiable event such as the loss...
...current SEC chairman, Christopher Cox, has welcomed the report and has promised to follow up on implementing its key recommendations, including composing a comprehensive procedural investigative manual, similar to one used by U.S. Attorneys, to minimize discretionary abuse. Another recommendation: to keep reliable records of all external communication and to "generally discourage" communication with supervisors that excludes lead staff attorneys. Grassley praised Cox, a former Congressman, as a "model of transparency and accountability" and for "recognizing the value of Congressional oversight instead of resisting it like most other agencies do." As for the inspector general's office...
...83—director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government—has recently come under fire in a prominent political magazine for writing the introduction to the U.S. Army’s Counterinsurgency Field Manual...
...said she hopes this new manual will fill this educational gap in the soldiers’ training...