While other regents at the meeting in San Francisco huddled behind closed doors or waited at a safe distance on a teleconference call, Mr. Newsom sat forward in his chair, surrounded by students and faculty members railing against a raft of ills: rising tuition, mounting student debt, grim job prospects and accusations of police brutality.
He arrived at the No. 2 hospital in the first days of February and, within a week, dozens of doctors and nurses had fallen ill, giving rise to panic.
The expense of euthanizing horses that are sick, lame, old or dangerous is creating an ill-timed rise in "irresponsible owners," Dr. Lenz said, and a new class of unwanted -- and in some cases discarded -- beasts.
Sociologists say the deaths reflect a lack of support for the mentally ill and rising stress resulting from huge social inequalities in China's fast-changing society.
According to "Poverty and Deprivation," the proportion of those "disabled or limited in their major activity by chronic ill health" rises sharply as income sinks.
Three years ago, DreamWorks' ill-fated Rise of the Guardians had reached £5.71m at the same stage of its run, on its way to a total of £13m.
Another study showed that the arrest rate of mentally ill people rose five-fold in the first eight years after the rules tightened about whom was allowed into mental hospitals.Tougher sentencing policies are also pushing mentally ill people towards prison.
With its staff stretched to the limit, the Veterans Benefits Administration supervisors set priorities for processing claims, workers say, with seriously wounded recent veterans, the homeless and terminally ill often rising to the top.
Because of AIDS, farming skills are being lost, agricultural development efforts are declining, rural livelihoods are disintegrating, productive capacity to work the land is dropping and household earnings are shrinking -- all while the cost of caring for the ill is rising exponentially.
The number of disabled mentally ill has risen dramatically since 1955, and during the past two decades, a period when the prescribing of psychiatric medications has exploded, the number of adults and children disabled by mental illness has risen at a mind-boggling rate.
