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Science isn't on the drug warriors' side [Blowback]
Former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration Robert Bonner wrote in his Feb. 1 Blowback article, "There is still no such scientific study establishing that marijuana is effective as a medicine." Nonsense. Over the last several years, the state...
Tags: Medical Research, University of Arizona, Placebo, Substance Abuse, Science
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Army secretary calls for mental health 'resilience' training
JOINT BASE LEWIS McCHORD, Wash. — With suicides in the Army reaching another record in 2012, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday he is reviewing recommendations from a study of soldier behavioral health evaluations and intends to adopt mental...
Tags: Health, Armed Forces, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions, FBI
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Navy SEAL sniper's Texas shooting death stirs controversy
Chris Kyle, by all measures, was one of the most decorated and talented soldiers in American history. He was also a victim of gun crime who was against gun control, and his death has already become cannon fodder in an emotional, rancorous debate. Kyle,...
Tags: Ron Paul, Politics, Wars and Interventions, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Texas police hold suspect in fatal shooting of ex-SEAL Chris Kyle
HOUSTON—Dallas-area police have arrested a suspect in connection with the fatal shooting Saturday of former Navy SEAL and “American Sniper” author Chris Kyle and a second man at a north Texas shooting range. Late Saturday, Lancaster,...
Tags: Shootings, U.S. Military, Murder, Criminals, Television Industry
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In sniper Chris Kyle's shooting death, postwar worlds collide
A killer and a survivor, Chris Kyle had left the dust-worn places where he had to worry about enemy fire -- or even friendly fire. Kyle, 38, an author and former Navy SEAL sniper, was shot dead Saturday in Texas by an unemployed, 25-year-old Marine...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Substance Abuse, U.S. Military, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Flu
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Alabama abduction: Boy still held in underground bunker
Police negotiated through a 4-inch ventilation pipe Friday with the suspected gunman holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker in rural southeast Alabama, four days after a man shot and killed a bus driver while abducting the boy from a...
Tags: Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Charles Poland, Jr., Jimmy Lee Dykes
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One side, then the other from Times readers
On any given issue, it's rare for letters sent to The Times to line up decisively on one side of the debate. But that's exactly what happened this week, when three controversial topics made headlines: a proposed interpretive center in the Ballona...
Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Interior Policy, Central Intelligence Agency
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County health clinic to open in skid row apartment building
L.A. NOWRecognizing the high cost of treating homeless patients, Los Angeles County plans to open a health clinic inside a skid row apartment building.... -
The Sunday Conversation: It's a dog's life for Robert Crais
"Suspect," Robert Crais' 19th crime novel, which hit bookstores last week, introduces two new characters (and one new species) to the award-winning L.A. author's repertoire — LAPD cop Scott James and his K-9 partner, Maggie. The former TV writer,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Human Interest, Authors, ABC (tv network), Jack Klugman
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Frank Lopez Sr. dies at 64; sought San Jose Vietnam vets memorial
Frank Lopez Sr., a decorated Marine whose nightmares from the Vietnam War led him to launch a drive for a memorial honoring fellow San Jose servicemen who gave their lives in the conflict, died Nov. 24 of illnesses stemming from exposure to Agent Orange,...
Tags: Vietnam War (1955-1975), Agent Orange Poisoning (1961-1971), Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Human Interest
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Army seeks death for Sgt. Robert Bales in Afghan shooting rampage
SEATTLE -- The commanders at Joint Base Lewis-McChord have decided to refer the case against Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales for a general court-martial on charges that he murdered 16 civilians in a late-night shooting rampage outside a remote Army outpost...
Tags: Mental Health, FBI, Lawyers, Prosecution, Kandahar Massacre (2012)
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'Going Clear' takes on Scientology's celebrity fixation
Who'd have thought a history of a religion would offer so many guilty pleasures? Lawrence Wright's enthralling account of Scientology's rise, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief," brims with celebrity scandal. To anyone who gets...
Tags: Separation of Church and State, Religion and Belief, World War II (1939-1945), Bob Hope, Book
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