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...Even when the training course is completed, there's no guarantee soldiers will stick to their commitment?on paper, four years of military service. Earlier this year, the British trained the 1st Battalion of the Afghan National Guard in a six-week crash course. In April, 550 new guardsmen graduated and took their posts. Since then, the number has dropped below 400 as disillusioned soldiers drift away to find other work or return to their home provinces. But as the Americans see it, in these parts that's par for the course. "The reality of doing this in Afghanistan...
PLACEBO POWER Move over, Prozac. It looks as if sugar pills can chase the blues away too. A six-week clinical trial in which doctors used PET scans to examine the brains of 17 patients hospitalized for depression shows that high-priced antidepressants and dummy pills both cause visible changes in the mood-regulating regions of the brain. Asked how they felt, patients on fake and real pills alike reported that their symptoms improved. But don't tear up your prescription just yet. The catch? The subjects' moods may have lifted in part because they had left their usual worries...
PSLM member Daniel DiMaggio ’03 said he believed the University was trying to “sneak by all these other negotiations” following contentious talks with the janitors union, a six-week long process during which nine protestors were arrested for blocking traffic in an act of civil disobedience...
...terms of Wetlaufer’s resignation, Collingwood said, require her to take a six-week leave of absence, after which she will be reinstated as an editor-at-large. She will continue to occupy her old office...
...seemed like prime time when negotiations with Harvard University threatened to collapse over pay and health benefits earlier this week. The Service Employees International Union Local 254 (SEIU) and Harvard had, during the six-week long negotiations, already settled some of the issues, such as overtime pay, vacation and sick leave, but stalled over the essentials: starting wages and health insurance...