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...company is based in Baghdad's green zone, in a two-room house with a volleyball net out front. When necessary, the house serves as a "restoration zone" where soldiers or Marines can spend three days "off line," getting rest and hot meals, talking through their problems. Similar sanctuaries exist on main bases throughout the country. In some instances, an antidepressant or antianxiety medication is prescribed. In extreme cases, the soldier or Marine is sent home. But the prime purpose is to prepare them to re-enter the fray, "healed" enough to undergo combat again. Rabb and other mental-health...
...going home, he chose to stay because, he says, "these are my brothers. I feel safer with them than I do anywhere else. I need to be with them." As the Marine who served in al-Anbar earlier this year puts it, "All of the bigger issues don't exist. You understand, ultimately, that the mission is about protecting each other...
...cosmos--the relative strengths of gravity, electromagnetism and the forces that operate inside atomic nuclei as well as the masses and relative abundances of different particles--are so finely tuned that if just one of them were even slightly different, life as we know it couldn't exist...
...Scheherazade: Comics about love, treachery, mothers, and monsters" (Soft Skull Press; $20; 223 pages), edited by Megan Kelso, has been organized on a principle that is both fundamental and elusive: all the contributors are women. Unlike the more radical "We exist!" statements of past women cartoonist collections, Kelso uses the book to explore the more subtle theme of the way women treat the narrative form differently than men. She tantalizingly stops short of saying how they may differ, so part of the book's pleasure comes from thinking about this idea. A superficial flip-though won't provide an answer...
Officially known as the Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, Harvard’s chapter—the nation’s oldest to exist continuously—elects the Junior 24 in junior spring, the Senior 48 in senior fall and an additional batch in senior spring, bringing the total membership to about 10 percent of the graduating class...