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China Says Astronauts Break Record with 9 Hour Spacewalk
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China said two of its astronauts spent nine hours outside the Tiangong
Space Station. The longest previous spacewalk, by Americans, was eight
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THE FASHION AND TREND ; ....Across the country, doctors like Sullivan are facing a spike in psychiatric emergencies - attempted suicide, severe depression, psychosis - as states slash mental health services and the country's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression takes its toll.
This trend is taxing emergency rooms already overburdened by uninsured patients who wait until ailments become acute before seeking treatment.
"These are people without a previous psychiatric history who are coming in and telling us they've lost their jobs, they've lost sometimes their homes, they can't provide for their families, and they are becoming severely depressed," said Dr. Felicia Smith, director of the acute psychiatric service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Visits to the hospital's psychiatric emergency department have climbed 20 percent in the past three years.
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