| Younger Veterans at Greater Suicide Risk
Her team published its findings Tuesday in the online edition of the American Journal of Public Health. Military service comes with special challenges, and the 1999 Veterans Health Study found that nearly a third -- 31 percent -- of veterans were suffering depressive symptoms, a rate that's two to five times higher than observed in the general public. Now, as a new generation of soldiers returns from Iraq and Afghanistan, Zivin's team sought to better understand the risks depressed veterans face for suicide. To do so, they pored through data from the VA's National Registry for Depression for the years 1999 to 2004. Overall, the researchers looked at information on almost 808,000 veterans diagnosed with depressive symptoms; 1,683 (0.21 percent) of those veterans took their own lives.
Fraud US-Style: Fake Videos and Elections
First the videos with bin Laden ones Exhibit A. He always seems to pop up strategically at well-timed moments, almost like we planned it that way. Evidence points that way. Consider the one on Friday (September 7) before the sixth 9/11 anniversary in 2007. Digital image forensics expert, Neal Krawetz of Hactor Factor, said it was full of low quality visual and audio splices, a likely fake. Striking also was bin Laden's beard that was gray in recent images. In this video, it's black. In addition, the footage has him dressed in a white hat and shirt and yellow sweater, precisely his same attire on an October 29, 2004 video. In addition, the background, lighting, desk and camera angle are the same. Krawetz noted that "if you overlay the 2007 and 2004 videos, bin Laden's face is the same (unaged).
Bonds' exit lifts restrictions on Roberts' thievery
Roberts came to realize that his green light came with a Bonds restrictor plate. He wasn't truly free to take a base whenever it was there for the stealing. "The way it played out ..." Roberts said, wearing a glum expression. "It was pretty clear we wanted him to get his at-bats. We weren't scoring runs early in the season, and he was our best chance. We had to put the brakes on, so he could get his opportunities." There also was the little matter of the all-time home run record. As fans stood and cheered one of Bonds' at-bats, the last thing they wanted to see was the inning end on a swipe tag at second base. "Even though Barry says it's OK to run, in the back of Dave's mind, my mind, the fans' minds, you don't want to take the bat out of Barry's hands," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.
Shia LaBeouf Loves Life In 'Disturbia'
Sure, former Disney Channel actor Shia LaBeouf isn't making the covers of teen magazines pushing a new bubblegum pop album, but it suits the former "Even Stevens" star just fine. In fact, the star of the new suspense thriller "Disturbia" couldn't think of a more disturbing scenario. "I'm fortunate, especially after the Disney Channel thing. You can get locked into a 'High School Musical' route, put an album out -- it just really was never my thing," LaBeouf said in a recent @ The Movies interview. "I don't know if I really ever fit in there. I'm sort of the anomaly at that place. It's very one-note." LaBeouf, whose starred in such films as "Holes," "I, Robot," "The Greatest Game Ever Played" and "Bobby" since his "Even Stevens" days, is hardly biting the hand that fed him from 1999 through 2003.
Opinion: The decline and fall of the Palm empire
Later, the founders of Palm invented the first great smart phone — essentially a Palm Pilot that made phone calls. They were cheap, simple and fun to use. The genius behind both these inventions was, of course, Jeff Hawkins (pdf format). Together with co-founder Donna Dubinsky, Hawkins launched the companies and invented the devices that transformed — and, for a time, dominated — mobile computing. The Palm Pilot was great for the same reason iPods, Macs and other Apple products are great. In each case, development was lorded over by a design and usability fascist driven by a powerful vision of the complete user experience. What went wrong? The tragic story of Palm's fall from greatness is a history of squandered resources and misplaced effort.
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