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...response to the U.S. invasion-is a sapping wound to a civilized society. The notion that there are heroic sociopaths like Jack Bauer who can carry the fight without severe psychological consequences is a fantasy. The flood of Iraq war veterans showing up at hospitals with post-traumatic stress disorder is testimony to that. The moral necessity to confront the terrorists is clear. But the war is going to be fought on their terms, not ours, and we are bound to be diminished-stained, perhaps irrevocably...
...Number of veterans who received benefit payments for post--traumatic stress disorder in 2004, at a cost of $4.3 billion, up 150% since...
...willing suspension of this ability would have been a gross dereliction of official and professional duties on my part. I chose to resign instead." Illarionov's resignation coincides with Russia's assumption of the G-8 group leadership this year. Putin is expected to use the forum to stress how Russia today shares key Western values and ideals. Illarionov's departure is thus awkwardly timed for Putin, but it is also a sign that, under his presidency, Russia is a very different place from the free-market economy and pluralistic democracy that many Western and Russian reformers once hoped...
...REDUCE STRESS The best way to manage stress is through physical activity or yoga, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a heart surgeon at New York-- Presbyterian Hospital. "Yoga basically tricks you into meditating," he says. "I would recommend learning the sun salutation and starting a five-to-seven-minute practice early in the morning. It gets you limber, gets your heart beating and gets you breathing...
It’s all a matter of priorities. Simply put: mittens over gloves, cuddling over all-nighters, colors over drab clothing, perspective over stress...