Government survey finds that 5 percent of Americans suffer from a ‘serious mental illness’
About 20 percent of American adults suffer some sort of mental illness each year, and about 5 percent experience a serious disorder that disrupts work, family or social life, according to a government report released Thursday. The annual National Survey on Drug Use and Health sketches a now-familiar picture of a country where mental illness is common and the demand for treatment high. Mental illne
Opinion | When will we stop the genocide in North Korea?
“Holocaust” is the word used to describe the systematic extermination of millions of innocent European Jews during World War II. In the aftermath of this mammoth failure of humanity, many nations “repented” and declared that “never again” would such inhumanity and absolute disregard for human dignity and life be tolerated. Yet on Jan. 1, the regime of Kim Jong Il warned that a "nuclear holocaust"
Japan's nuclear emergency - The Washington Post
Japan’s nuclear emergency Damage at a nuclear power plant has made leaking radiation the primary threat facing a country grappling with devastation from a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami. For a narrated animation of what happened, click here. How dangerous is the radiation? The highest reported level of radiation released from the Daiichi plant was 1,000 millisieverts per hour on March 27. Th
In Ishinomaki, news comes old-fashioned way: Via paper
ISHINOMAKI, Japan — Nobody tweeted or blogged or e-mailed. They didn't telephone either. Bereft of electricity, gasoline and gas, this tsunami-traumatized town did things the really old-fashioned way — with pen and paper. Unable to operate its 20th-century printing press — never mind its computers, Web site or 3G mobile phones — the town’s only newspaper, the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, wrote its art
In the Middle East, this is not a Facebook revolution
For decades, armed soldiers have guarded the Egyptian Radio and Television Union building in downtown Cairo, apparently to protect the country's formidable broadcast assets from being commandeered in an attempted revolution. But Hosni Mubarak's departure from power earlier this month after three decades of rule showed that the power of social media sites and mobile phone technology proved a far bi
'Simple-minded' Americans might want to pay attention to Japan's election
IT'S NOT ONLY voters in Washington and Maryland who will cast fateful votes on Tuesday. In Japan, a new prime minister could be chosen. If so, Japan, which has gotten into the habit lately of running through one prime minister a year, will toss out the latest incumbent after barely three months. Americans have reason to care. Japan for decades has been America's most important U.S. ally in Asia, a
In Japan but surrounded by U.S. influence, Okinawa struggles with split identity
CHATAN, JAPAN -- These days, when Melissa Tomlinson describes her fraught relationship with the United States, she speaks in English, the language she once rejected. She grew up here on the island of Okinawa. Her mother was Japanese, and her father was an American who served in the U.S. Army, came to Okinawa, fell in love, fell out of love, then fell out of touch. "I had plans to track him down, f
Gunman Who Killed 32 Lived in Va. Tech Dormitory
Washington Post Staff Writers Tuesday, April 17, 2007; 8:32 AM BLACKSBURG, Va., April 17 -- Virginia Tech president Charles W. Steger said today that the gunman who rampaged through the campus on Monday leaving 32 dead was a student who lived in one of the school's dormitories. The name of the assailant has not been publicly released, but Steger, in an interview on CNN, said he was an Asian male w
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