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...taken seven years for the full measure of the pill's stranglehold on Appalachian counties like Tazewell to become obvious--in clogged and crowded courts, in villages whose jails are so full that inmates sleep on the floor, and in neighborhoods focused on leaving nothing valuable lying around. The number of robberies, burglaries and thefts has shot up 48% in Tazewell in only five years, from 483 crimes in 1998 to 716 in 2003, even as the national property-crime rate fell 25%. "People are stealing anything that's not nailed down," says county commonwealth's attorney Dennis Lee. Testimony...
...that mental-health professionals sanctioned the beatings and sexual humiliation that guards at Abu Ghraib are accused of inflicting, Army investigators did find that military-intelligence officers at the prison had psychiatrists review their "interrogation plans" for Iraqi detainees. If any mental-health professionals supervised such pressure tactics as sleep deprivation or the use of military dogs to threaten prisoners during interrogations, that would cross an ethical line, says an Army psychiatrist. "We should not be using our abilities to make things difficult for a person," the psychiatrist told TIME. "I'd like to think that no mental-health people...
...idiot box was idiotic and the boob tube gained its, well, boob, there was truth on television. The vast wasteland was sprinkled with islands of worth: news programs, those last bastions of truth in a swirling sea of superficiality, were always there to inform, frankly and objectively. Americans could sleep peacefully knowing that the Rather-Brokaw-Jennings triumvirate could always be counted on to emerge from the evening twilight, ready to tell an anxious nation how to think and what to believe...
Although Glazer is reluctant to say he has sacrificed school for the UC, his roommate Golis says that besides sleep, schoolwork is the first...
...quite sure what it tells them. The expert is puzzled. The five regular Americans sitting with the President keep their curtain-rod posture and laminated smiles. Is the President insulting the professor? What is the message? Book learning just makes you an adviser, but sleep through a few tests and you too can be President...