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.
President Bush is preparing to finish an agreement with Brazil to promote the production and use of ethanol throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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 - It began with reports of mice and moldy plaster, but after two weeks of outrage, the scandal over poor conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center has claimed several careers — including the secretary of the Army's.
AP - At a university smaller than some high schools, where many athletes live in the same dormitory, the deaths of four baseball players in a bus crash has left an entire campus feeling a profound sense of loss.
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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