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...mountainous and sparsely settled Big Island, as well as clusters in such diverse places as the Pacific Northwest and the backwoods of Maine. An accurate count is tough to come by. "You don't have to move very far upslope to get out of sight," says Stephen Staten, a psychiatrist who began counseling bush vets at a Veterans Administration clinic in Kona 16 months ago. No one is looking too closely either, since some of the bush vets are armed, unpredictable and have set booby traps around their camps. "There are veterans in the bush who are beyond help," says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In America | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

...virtual nonstop release of adrenaline and other similar substances into the bloodstream. When cars backfire, PTSD patients generally hit the dirt. The sound of helicopter rotor blades causes some to conceal themselves in trees. A baby's cry can invoke instant rage. Put in nonclinical terms, says psychiatrist Staten, the symptoms of PTSD are "like experiencing one's most threatening nightmares." A recent medical study found that the adrenaline levels of PTSD sufferers remain higher during hospital treatment than those of manic-depressives and paranoid schizophrenics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lost In America | 2/11/1991 | See Source »

Sameer N. Rafla-Demetrious '94, a Pennypacker Hall resident originally from Staten Island, N.Y., died in his sleep on Sunday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennypacker Resident Dies In Sleep Sunday | 1/16/1991 | See Source »

They did not quite pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor, but voters in Staten Island, N.Y., and Key Biscayne, Fla., have decided to declare their independence. By an 81% vote last week, Staten Islanders approved a commission to study the feasibility of breaking away from New York City. Staten Island's 400,000 residents are irate over the political powerlessness of their borough, which, they claim, receives a smaller portion of municipal services than the city's four other boroughs and more than its fair share of mental institutions, prisons and landfills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Election Notes Boundaries: Cutting Loose | 11/19/1990 | See Source »

...York City I feel uniquely qualified to manage your university. As I see it, you've got your Harvard Yard, which is like Brooklyn, Eliot House is uptown Manhattan and Winthrop is downtown, and Adams is Queens. How am I doing? You've got Kirkland-the Bronx, Mather-Staten Island, and the Quad, which is, I don't know, out somewhere in New Jersey...

Author: By Brian D. Reich, | Title: New York State of Mind | 11/13/1990 | See Source »

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