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Following the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ approval on Tuesday of a new general education program to replace the Core, undergraduates involved in the curricular review stress that its true success will depend on the thoroughness of its implementation and the role that students will play in the process...
...damage. Major General Miller has been hustled back to Baghdad to fix the prison system. He promised to halve the number of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and end the practice of hooding captives. But he refused to entirely rule out the use of other tactics, like sleep deprivation and "stress positions," if they were approved by a senior officer. A senior Pentagon official says Rumsfeld has taken a personal interest in coming up with a dollar figure to compensate Iraqis who have been wronged. Abizaid tells TIME that he thinks the outrage will fade as the U.S. demonstrates its willingness...
...going outside the prison building, and even moved an exercise bicycle into his quarters to avoid having to move around unprotected areas. But another veteran of the prison, Major David Dinenna, said he did not believe Pappas was impaired, though quite a few other soldiers were suffering from battle stress from the same shelling...
...Last December, the job hunt broke him down. "The stress factor here is real different," he says. "There, I was worried about the dying, but that was it. They give you a plan and you do it. Here at home I have so many more things to worry about." He was admitted to the VA hospital in Hines, Ill., and treated for post-traumatic stress disorder. A psychiatrist there introduced him to David Hansberger, who was hired by the VA to procure, among other things, jobs for area veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Hansberger showed Hughes...
...name changed to Louisiana State University Medical Center years ago - remains shuttered nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina, and is likely to remain that way. And with a handful of local emergency rooms forced to pick up the slack, Charity's closure is putting a great deal of stress on an already overtaxed health care system. Hospital staff more accustomed to treating cuts and chest pains are dealing with severely mentally ill patients and hard-core substance abuse cases. A limited number of ER beds, needed for heart patients and diabetic emergencies, are filled with psychiatric patients who have nowhere...