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Wars are like icebergs: much of the cost remains hidden, and the near doubling of the defense budget since 2001 does not cover what lies ahead. Better body armor and trauma care mean new life for thousands of soldiers who would have died in any earlier war. But many are broken or burned or buried in pain from what they saw and did. One in five suffers from major depression or posttraumatic stress, says a new Rand Corp. study; more than 300,000 have suffered traumatic brain injury. The cost of treating them is projected to double over the next...
...most recently in his victory speech after his win in North Carolina, when he said, "We can't afford to give John McCain the chance to serve out George Bush's third term." It helps that Bush is at record public disapproval levels, his Arab-Israeli peace process is near dead, his efforts to prevent Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons appear to be going nowhere, and oil prices are soaring beyond his control...
...Supreme Court ruling has had some immediate effect: those who were near their dates before the seven-month moratorium are now being quickly lined up for execution. Georgia put murderer William Earl Lynd to death on May 6. But this resolution of the lethal injection fight won't speed up the system in the long run. There will still be a deep well of public and legal opposition that will fund new challenges to capital punishment, just as there were decades of challenges and moratoriums long before questions arose about lethal injection...
...taco stands, residents are understandably sensitive to the frightening potential of unbounded violence: Locke stands just a few blocks from the epicenter of 1965's Watts riots. So when the May 9 incident turned into what principal Travis Kiel calls "a full-fledged black and brown thing" - a near-riot pitting African-American against Latino students - he called for help. Within minutes, more than 100 police officers, many in riot gear, stormed the campus, wielding batons, herding blacks and Latinos into separate gymnasiums, and arresting four students. (There were no major injuries...
...Meanwhile, for the head of a major Tibetan lineage to spend a sixth of every year in the United States would be a tremendous boost for the Buddhist community here. The Karmapa's p.r. representative claims he has attained a near sell-out of 21,000 seats at teachings he will give here (starting with one Saturday at Manhattan's Hammerstein Ballroom) almost solely on the strength of e-mail chains. Many in the audience will be his age. When a reporter noted that the Kagyu lineage is known for its stress on practice and that his own generation...