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...founder of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-Inglewood (California). NAMI is a 27-year-old advocacy organization for mentally ill people and their family members. Our chapter is kind of the new kid on the block. In that capacity, I work as a facilitator with the support group, and I hear a lot of stories. We teach a 12-week course on the major brain diseases. I trained for that. So I've learned about this just through my own means, but NAMI has played a critical role in increasing my education...
...residents of the Peabody housing estate have become used to seeing cops on the street, reminders that their city is under threat. The war came home last week. "We won't hurt you!" a group of armed police shouted to men sheltering inside a fourth-floor apartment in a block of red-brick buildings. The officers had staked out the complex for hours, believing that two of the men wanted for the unsuccessful attempt to bomb the city's transportation system on July 21 were hiding inside. When the suspects failed to give themselves up, witnesses say, the officers stuck...
...stumbling block is the Sunni contingent, which opposes a partition along sectarian or ethnic lines and wants a strong central government. "The Sunni Arabs are already pushing back on this. They all hate it," said a U.S. embassy official familiar with the drafting process. Jawad al-Malaki, a Shi'ite committee member and adviser to Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, calls the Sunni approach a nonstarter, warning that it could lead to a new dictatorship. Meanwhile, the U.S. is trying to convince the Sunnis that federalism is in their interest. "If you had the kind of system the Sunnis want...
...some Americans feel about China's rising economy, adding further tension to already strained trade ties between the U.S. and China. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on June 30 warning that the proposed acquisition poses a threat to national security and urging the Bush Administration to block any deal...
...reneged amid a steep sales slump and $6.4 billion in losses. Ford has started issuing reports on its environmental impact and is taking steps to address global warming. But nowhere in the publicity efforts do you hear that the firm is part of an industry group suing California to block a regulation requiring a 30% cut in greenhouse-gas emissions for new vehicles sold in the state by the 2016 model year...