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...father's descriptions of battle, imprisonment and torture in Vietnam. The Senator's book, Faith of My Fathers, dryly relates the experience of "small pieces of hot shrapnel" tearing "into my legs and chest" and tells how, in solitary confinement, "the first few weeks are the hardest," as "the onset of despair is immediate." Not exactly a prime recruiting tool for your kids. Still, when it comes to them, McCain the elder is stoic. "I don't think there's anything unusual about Jimmy," he says. "There are, thank God, lots of young men and women like...
...aback by the weekend's carnage: the victims - three of whom were 19 years old, along with a 16- and 17-year-old - were shot multiple times while riding in a Ford Explorer around 4 a.m. The murders rattled neighbors already stressed by the challenges of rebuilding and the onset of another hurricane season...
Experiments, by definition, are a voyage into the unknown. But Melbourne psychiatrist Patrick McGorry conducted one on young people in the late 1990s that was more daring than most. McGorry was tantalized by the idea that psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia have a pre-onset phase, or prodrome, during which careful intervention could prevent them from emerging—and wrecking the lives of sufferers and their loved ones. The theory wasn't McGorry's alone, but he decided to test it in a world-first trial that had psychiatry's skeptics aghast...
...Contacted by Time, McGlashan calls McGorry a "terrific psychiatrist and a pioneering researcher, [but] we differ in the focus of our greatest enthusiasm"—McGorry's being intervention, his the mechanics of psychosis onset. "There may be gold in the early-intervention hills," McGlashan concedes, "but the data are not plentiful enough and the findings not replicated enough for us to recommend anything more than further research at this point...
...aback by the weekend's carnage: the victims - three of whom were 19 years old, along with a 16- and 17-year-old - were shot multiple times while riding in a Ford Explorer around 4 a.m. The murders rattled neighbors already stressed by the challenges of rebuilding and the onset of another hurricane season...