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Study ties low DHA levels to military suicide risk

By | 08.24.11 | 3:38 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

Scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism teamed with researched at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Maryland to analyze a sample of suicide deaths among U.S. military personnel on active duty between 2002 and 2008. The researchers compared levels of omega-3 fatty acids of More…

How Emergency Preparedness Saved Lives in Austin

By | 09.29.10 | 1:24 pm

The shooting yesterday at University of Texas-Austin provides a good example of how funding emergency preparedness efforts improves safety. The Austin-American Statesman reports today that the early reviews of the response to the incident, in which only the shooter himself perished, are good. Part of the reason for More…

Social Worker Raided for Rioting on Twitter Wants His Pickaxes Back

By | 10.27.09 | 10:45 am

This seems almost too weird to be true, but Wired reports that on Oct. 1, federal agents seized the computers, manuscripts and pickaxes of an anarchist social worker in Queens, N.Y., claiming he violating anti-rioting laws on Twitter.