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...good news is nearly three-quarters of the 200 military men and women interviewed by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) said that it was very or somewhat easy for them to seek out mental health care. But 60% still feared that doing so could have negative consequences on their career. More than half reported they believe others would think less of them if they sought out counseling, and most surveyed said they have rarely or never spoken even to family and friends about mental health issues. These numbers show "there's still a long way to go towards reducing...
Nonetheless, service members often find it easier to seek therapy outside the military setting than within it, the APA study also concluded. Nearly half of those surveyed said that they didn't know the warning signs of mental illness, and one-quarter knew nothing at all about effective treatments. Republican Senator Kit Bond of Missouri hopes to improve that. He plans to introduce legislation Thursday that would dramatically expand care options for active-duty troops. Right now they can seek therapy on military bases and national facilities such as Maryland-based Walter Reed Hospital. If passed, Bond's bill will...
...there is a formula for foreign companies operating in Africa's extractive industries, it has been this: Pay the government millions of dollars for concession rights; dig, pump, pick or chop what you seek; and export. Don't worry too much about the country or its people...
Where is the threshold of embarrassment about smells, sexuality, and defecation? This fall, history professor Walter L. Johnson will seek to answer this question in his new course, “Bodily Functions: The History of Bare Life and Biopower.” Johnson said that those who enroll in his seminar will work through various approaches, including Marxism, cultural anthropology, post-modernism, and feminism to study different topics on the history of the body, “The idea is to think in a suggestive rather than exhaustive manner about the way that historians and social theorists have thought...
...taboo and shock by artists like Luis Buñel, Max Ernst, and Schneider is justifiable because they have more formulated ideas behind their art than platitudes about “discourse.” They sought, or seek, substantive change. The frustration with cruder attempts is that behind the lip service to “debate,” one senses that there is little of meaning or substance. Instead, these displays are becoming increasingly indistinguishable from the lurid tabloid spreads of Amy Winehouse’s personal decay or Britney’s tiresome new pregnancy. Where?...