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...judge in that case ruled that anger, not mental illness, was the root of the murder, and Barrett was sentenced to 30 years in prison, according to Saltzman’s article...
...assault to seize the city, which lies 35 miles west of Baghdad, Fallujah has fallen under the sway of an assortment of hard-line insurgents--including, the U.S. believes, Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's chief operative in Iraq. The U.S. has tried to find Iraqis willing to root out the militants who are imposing Taliban-style rule in the city, bringing miscreants before a strict Islamic court. The Fallujah Brigade, a group of former Baathist officers whom the Marines armed and outfitted after the April standoff, has collapsed. Marine commanders say the unit is aiding the same rebels...
...Ying Yang, 20, was one of the band. In an interview this summer, he told TIME that on May 19 his girlfriend, Mao Lee, 14, ignored warnings from the camp's armed guards that there might be Lao patrols in the neighborhood and went looking for cassava root along a mountain path. Mao's elder sister Chao, 16, went along, says Va Char, with a group of 12 young men and women. They set off up the mountain path. None of them carried weapons. Behind them, says Va Char, four or five other groups, perhaps 40 people in all, followed...
...into deadly no-go zones. While U.S. and Iraqi officials insist they have the firepower to contain the violence, the agonizing search for a way out in Najaf was the latest reminder that military might isn't enough to pacify the insurgents sufficiently for a homegrown government to take root. "This is not solely about the Iraqi government and Muqtada al-Sadr," says a coalition official in Baghdad. "It has national implications. Armed opponents in other parts of the country are drawing lessons from this...
...answer may come soon. The U.S. spends more than $1 billion a year on dementia drugs, and new ones are being developed every day. Researchers at Eli Lilly reported progress in Philadelphia on a compound that targets the sticky plaques in the brain that are the root cause of Alzheimer's. Other people, like Nancy Reagan, are pinning their hopes for a cure on stem cells--although experts are worried that in the wake of Ronald Reagan's death from Alzheimer's, those prospects may have been oversold. There are no miracle cures on the horizon, but there is reason...