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...traumatic stress disorder. Left untreated, PTSD and depression could cost the nation as much as $6.2 billion in medical care and indirect costs during the two years that follow deployment, the Rand researchers estimated. "We need to remove the institutional cultural barriers that discourage soldiers from seeking care," says Terri Tanielian, one of the report's authors. "It's going to take system-level changes to improve treatments for these illnesses...
...sermons began circulating, many whites heard divisive, angry, unpatriotic pronouncements on race, class and country. Many blacks, on the other hand, heard something more familiar: righteous anger about oppression and deliberate hyperbole in laying blame, which are common in sermons delivered in black churches every Sunday. The Rev. Terri Owens, dean of students at the University of Chicago Divinity School, says the black church tradition has its roots in the era of slavery, when African Americans held services under trees, far from their white masters. "Churches have always been the place where black people could speak freely," she says. "They...
...National Right to Life Committee's Nov. 13 endorsement couldn't have come at a better time for Fred Thompson. The folksy former actor got off to a rocky start with social conservatives--advertising his spotty church attendance, punting on questions about Terri Schiavo and displaying insufficient opposition to gay marriage. But Thompson recently hired a top Christian Right activist to improve relations. And in a new TV ad in Iowa, he boasts of his antiabortion record and asks viewers to "remember that our rights come from God, not from government." He'll be looking now for a pro-life...
...back to 1978 if he can describe today's Republican Party as the "anti-Big Government party" and the "party that understands war" while calling the Democrats the "party of big spending." I guess Kristol was away when his party reconvened Congress to interfere with the decision to end Terri Schiavo's life; sent gallant troops to Iraq ill-equipped, undermanned and without any strategic plan to win and keep the peace; and rolled up the largest deficits in our history...
...page document, approved by Benedict, that denounced the cutting off of food and water to patients in a vegetative state even if they would never regain consciousness. This reaffirmed John Paul's stance in 2004 during the battle over ending artificial feeding for the severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, who was later taken off her feeding tube and died...