"China holds all the cards." It's a back-of-the-envelope geoeconomic analysis that you find more and more these days on talk radio and in blogs. Seems logical enough at first. China's central bank does, after all, hold a whopping $400 billion in U.S. treasury bills, bonds, and notes. Hey, when Americans buy $288 billion of your stuff—as happened to China in 2006—you've got to stash all those Benjamins somewhere. (For its part, China bought $55 billion of U.S. goods.)
Kigali, Rwanda—When the dusk settles over this swelling capital, Josh Gu simply moves from his downtown office to a modest residence on the outskirts of town and continues to work. Around 2 a.m., the calls from his employer, Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei, begin trickling in from Shenzhen, six time zones away in China. There are questions about the wireless network his team recently installed here. Eventually, Gu may catch a couple of hours of sleep, until it's time to get up and do it all over again. "This is my life, seven days a week," he says. "I love it."
What alarms many experts more than overdiagnosis is that depression is too often missed in those at risk of harming themselves. Some people are reluctant to get help, perhaps because they don't consider depression to be a legitimate medical condition or they lack insurance coverage. Others may have been scared off by the recent "black box" warnings on antidepressants citing an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and tendencies in young people who take them. Yet treatment appears to save lives: A study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry found a reduced risk of suicide attempts among 100,000 patients treated for depression during the first month of treatment—regardless of whether they used medication, psychotherapy, or both. U.S. News asked American Psychiatric Association President Carolyn Robinowitz and the APA's director of research, Darrel A. Regier, to explain the impact of underdiagnosis.
AP - America's space agency was shaken Thursday by two startling and unrelated reports: One involved claims that astronauts were drunk before flying. The other was news from NASA itself that a worker had sabotaged a computer set for delivery to the international space station.
AP - The head of the FBI contradicted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' sworn testimony and Senate Democrats requested a perjury investigation Thursday in a fresh barrage against President Bush's embattled longtime friend and aide.
AP - Army medical examiners were suspicious about the close proximity of the three bullet holes in Pat Tillman's forehead and tried without success to get authorities to investigate whether the former NFL player's death amounted to a crime, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
An explosion killed two people Thursday at the airport HQ of a company building the first private manned rocket for Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's space tourism venture. Aerial video showed a wrecked flatbed trailer with a large silver tank next to it, and large pieces of debris appeared to be strewn for hundreds of yards.
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick and three others plead not guilty to dogfighting charges Thursday. Protesters greeted Vick as he arrived for the hearing in Virginia.
FBI Director Robert Mueller told Congress today that a 2004 confrontation between current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his predecessor, John Ashcroft, who was in a hospital bed, concerned a controversial surveillance program -- an apparent contradiction Gonzales' testimony to the Senate.
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