Francis J. Harvey was forced to resign over the handling of revelations that wounded soldiers were receiving shabby and slow treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
For the more than 2 million Americans who suffer from schizophrenia, the biggest hurdle that comes after their hallucinations, voices, and paranoia have been controlled with medication is the seemingly simple task of conversing. Many have no way of knowing whether the person they're talking to is pleased or annoyed, and a new study reveals why. The condition appears to cause disconnections between nerve cells in the auditory regions of the brain, which prevents the brain from discerning changes in pitch like the deepening of a voice expressing frustration.
Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson, the chief of staff for Multinational Corps Iraq, told reporters this morning that the troop buildup in Baghdad would be completed by the end of May and that it would be months, and "certainly not weeks," before security began to improve noticeably in the Iraqi capital.
Grozny, Russia—One day last summer, Khamzat Tushayev joined the ranks of the disappeared. His wife, Satsita, trembles as she tells the story, which starts with a June 7 phone call from a man claiming to be with the prosecutor's bureau. The caller asked Tushayev, 47, a former separatist rebel, to come in for questioning—which he did the next morning. "I stayed at the gate, and the guard let my husband inside," she recalls. "I waited and waited. He didn't come back. So I asked the guard to phone the prosecutor's office. But this was what they said: 'There was never any such person here.'"
AP - Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey abruptly stepped down Friday as the Bush administration struggled to cope with the fallout from a scandal over substandard conditions for war-wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
AP - A small college in Ohio was thrown into mourning Friday after a bus carrying the baseball team tumbled over the side of a highway overpass and slammed onto the pavement 30 feet below, killing four students, the driver and his wife.
AP - The bodies of 14 policemen were found Friday northeast of Baghdad after an al-Qaida-affilated Sunni group said it abducted members of a government security force in retaliation for the rape of a Sunni woman by members of the Shiite-dominated police.
Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey quit on Friday, becoming the second casualty of the Walter Reed scandal. The resignation came as a memo surfaced indicating officials were aware five months ago of the deteriorating conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, a key facility treating troops wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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