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...recurring nightmares that characterize psychiatric conditions like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Walker says. "The brain has not stripped away the emotional rind from that experience memory," he says, so "the next night, the brain offers this up, and it fails again, and it starts to sound like a broken record ... What you hear [PTSD] patients describing is, 'I can't get over the event...
SENTENCED After being convicted of the 2003 murder of actress Lana Clarkson, record producer Phil Spector, 69, was sentenced to 19 years in prison...
...press conference earlier in the week, Kamran Daneshjoo, the head of Ahmadinejad's election committee, said the government was expecting a record voter turnout by the country's 46.2 million eligible voters and added that "it makes no difference to us which of the candidates becomes President." Daneshjoo said the government was interested only in holding "morally clean" elections and that according to the law, representatives of the Interior Ministry and the Guardian Council would ensure fairness...
...What recession? Defying the downturn, Europe's clubs could well smash the transfer-spending record this close season. English Premier League teams - which, according to Deloitte, spent $280 million on new players during the January transfer window, more than the amount spent in any of Europe's next four biggest leagues - are again in the mood to shop. The benevolence of billionaires helps. London club Chelsea, bankrolled by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, reportedly bid $74 million on June 9 for Atletico Madrid striker Sergio Aguero. Manchester City, owned by Sheik Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi...
...University of Texas at Austin, found that only 38% could clearly be characterized as liberal, while 49% could clearly be considered conservative. When the criminal cases (in which appellate judges are encouraged by Supreme Court precedent to be relatively pro-prosecution) are taken out of the mix, Sotomayor's record looks about 46% liberal and 36% conservative...