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Both the APA and the Rand study call upon the Pentagon to do more to promote better mental health care among its troops. On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is expected to announce a policy shift to no longer require military personnel applying for security clearance to disclose psychiatric counseling. Currently applicants are asked whether they've undergone therapy within the last seven years. The most recent data showed less than 1% of some 800,000 people investigated in 2006 were denied solely due to their mental health profiles, according to the Associated Press. Still, the new change seeks...
...within it, the APA study also concluded. Nearly half of those surveyed said that they didn't know the warning signs of mental illness, and one-quarter knew nothing at all about effective treatments. Republican Senator Kit Bond of Missouri hopes to improve that. He plans to introduce legislation Thursday that would dramatically expand care options for active-duty troops. Right now they can seek therapy on military bases and national facilities such as Maryland-based Walter Reed Hospital. If passed, Bond's bill will give them access to Veteran Administration treatment centers as well. It will also increase...
Harvard’s leading lady, Drew Gilpin Faust, answered 20 questions about her new book, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War,” at an event last Thursday. Unfortunately, FM couldn’t make it (and the questions were vetted in advance), but here are the 20 questions we would have liked her to answer. 1) Before we get started, we have a problem set to finish. So, what happens to investment in the U.S. if a report states that the government deficit for 2008 will be higher than anticipated...
Like a troop ship launching into the night, the University last Thursday convened a scouting party to the future almost totally unnoticed by students. President Faust’s announcement of an advisory committee to propose changes to the campus’s physical infrastructure didn’t attract the sort of attention that’s accompanied the initiatives to tinker with the Administrative Board or reconsider the Undergraduate Council. But in the long run, poured concrete has a much longer lifespan than disciplinary styles—today, Eliot dining hall remains more intact than President Eliot?...
...missile strike that killed Somalia's most notorious Islamist insurgent, Aden Hashi Ayro, has dealt a major blow to al-Qaeda's allies operating in East Africa. The deaths of Ayro and up to 10 others were announced early Thursday by spokesman for his al-Shabab militia, while the U.S. military confirmed it had struck what it called an al-Qaeda target in Somalia, but offered no details. Al-Shabab spokesmen said the men were killed early Thursday by a U.S. air strike on a house in Dusamareeb, a few hundred miles north of Mogadishu. "Infidel planes bombed Dhusamareb," Shabab...