Weekend Links

At the end of a long week focused on launching our own website, the Dart Blog is checking out the rest of the Internet. Here are a few of the places we're clicking:

• Stunning photographs of the L'Aquila earthquake; the worst natural disaster Italy has faced in decades, having killed over 260 residents, injuring over 1,000 and leaving 28,000 homeless. (Boston Globe, BBC, Dart Center)
  
• A series beginning with a US Army psychologist's taped admission that "not only myself, but all the clinicians up here are being pressured to not diagnose PTSD" and ends with an explanation of how the Army absolved itself of wrongdoing. (Mark Benjamin, Salon.com)
• A photo-essay a decade in the making, on the "psychiatric hospitals the world forgot," where patients are bathed in ice water, kept in rooms with no lights or wrapped in straitjackets 20 hours a day. (Eugene Richards, Mother Jones)
• Dispatches on Guatemala's children, half of whom suffer from chronic malnutrition with its risks of stunted growth and a diminished mental capacity. (Samuel Loewenberg, Pultizer Center on Crisis Reporting)
• A story of a baby boy in Baghdad, rescued from the wreckage of an explosion-damaged car. (Sam Dagher, New York Times)
• An explanation, by the journalist who published and excerpted it, of the importance of a Red Cross report documenting "beating by use of a collar," "suffocation by water," "confinement in a box" and other techniques it concluded "constituted torture" in American-run prisons. (Mark Danner, New York Review of Books)

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