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The psychological baggage of Iraq war veterans is well known - other reports say a third of returning soldiers have mental health issues. But the latest JAMA effort is striking for its findings on reservists. The study found 42.4% of reservists had a mental health problem identified by a clinician, a...
(2 of 2) Fred is one of at least four movies this year - the others being Mr. Brooks, You Kill Me and Things We Lost in the Fire - that send the main character to an AA-type addiction meeting. This group here is Siblings Anonymous, and gets a few laughs...
So here is a sweeping generalization, but perhaps a useful one: Western societies are cultures of personal revelation and exposure, while Muslim cultures are traditionally structured around protecting honor and propriety. On our shrunken planet, the two codes bump up against each other, throwing the other into relief. The same...
That fact was so visually striking in the global World Cup telecasts that it sparked intense discussion back home among politicians, who argued that whites had resisted integration at club-level rugby, and thus stifled blacks' advancement to international competition. Even before the team's opening game in Paris in...
On monday, TV and movie writers walked off the job, demanding a cut of the proceeds when their work appears on the Web. The same day, viral-video site Break.com invited striking writers to enter a short-movie contest, the winner to receive $5,000 (and everyone else to get...