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Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Not just any body
If you don't believe in souls or an afterlife, then a corpse is just a body — potentially a teaching tool, a source of life-saving organs, but little more. In 1829, taking such thinking to the extreme, a radical British pamphleteer named Peter...
Tags: Pakistan, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Religion and Belief, Ethics, Authors
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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: Demographics, Medical Procedures and Tests, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Environmental Pollution, Health
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Sgt. John Russell: Wrenching testimony in penalty phase
This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details.JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Lt. Col. Michael Jones was the last psychiatrist to see Sgt. John Russell before the sergeant returned to the Iraq mental health clinic with an M-16 rifle, killing two doctors and three other fellow servicemen. In...Tags: Health and Medical Professionals, Psychiatrists, Health, Same-Sex Marriage, Military Justice
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Veterans home-loan bond money going untapped
SACRAMENTO — In the last century, Californians have said yes to every request for money to help veterans buy homes. Since 2000, they have signed off on $1.4 billion in bonds for that purpose. But most of that money remains untapped. In fact, the...
Tags: Vietnam, Health, Voting, Iraq, Marketing
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Army sergeant found guilty of premeditation in killing 5 servicemen
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell was found guilty Monday of the premeditated murder of five fellow servicemen in 2009 at a mental health clinic in Iraq, a charge that carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison. Families...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Health, Depression, Military Justice, Armed Conflicts
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Judge refuses to free murder defendant, 86, from mental hospital
Over the objections of Los Angeles County mental health officials, a judge Thursday ordered an 86-year-old murder defendant to remain in the government's care and not be released to a family member. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Norman Shapiro...
Tags: Prosecution, Health, Alzheimer's Disease, Sleep Deprivation, Lawyers
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With Michael Jackson, lurid details of power, perversion never end
Is it possible for the Michael Jackson story to become more lurid, pathetic or extreme? You bet your sweet Jesus juice. Jackson’s mother and three children have sued Anschutz Entertainment Group, blaming the promoter of what was supposed to be...
Tags: Prosecution, Conrad Murray, Health and Medical Professionals, Witnesses, Entertainment
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Too young for solitary
At probation camps and juvenile halls, where delinquent minors are often held, officials sometimes have no choice but to temporarily isolate disruptive juveniles for the safety of other youths and camp personnel. But as an hour turns into a day or more...
Tags: Prisons, Health, Behavioral Conditions, Juvenile Delinquency, Crime, Law and Justice
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Jackson thought God was speaking to him, witness testifies
The pop legend who once had cut a lean but muscular figure and obsessed about every detail of his performance was suddenly scarily gaunt, attending rehearsals in dance shoes with holes and telling people that God was speaking to him. Michael Jackson's...
Tags: AEG, Prosecution, Conrad Murray, The O2, Witnesses
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Five killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq: Calculation or despair?
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, WASH. — The court-martial of Army Sgt. John Russell concluded Saturday with a military judge asked to decide whether the 14-year Army veteran was deluded by depression and despair as he shot five fellow service members in...
Tags: Prosecution, Health and Medical Professionals, Health, Psychiatrists, Depression
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L.A. County ordered to assume guardianship of elderly murder suspect
Over the objections of Los Angeles County mental health officials, a judge on Thursday ordered an 86-year-old murder defendant to remain in the government's care and not be released to a family member. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Norman Shapiro...
Tags: Prosecution, Health, Alzheimer's Disease, Sleep Deprivation, Lawyers
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Court-martial opens for sergeant who killed 5 U.S. troops in Iraq
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. — Army Sgt. John Russell opened fire on U.S. mental health workers at a combat stress center in Iraq out of revenge after doctors said he was not eligible to leave the Army, prosecutors said Monday at the opening of...
Tags: Prosecution, Psychiatrists, Courts-Martial, Health and Medical Professionals, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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