One such program, called the Warrior Stress Reset Program, is "designed to help address those common and normal reactions to war experiences, " says a military Web site.
According to a 2011 report on North Korean susceptibility to outside media, radio and DVDs are the most common way for normal North Koreans to hear media from the outside world.
But it's part of the machismo of the game that a common cold or illness that would keep a normal person out of work shouldn't cause a player to miss a game.
The pattern is common when La Nina -- the cooler than normal waters in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific -- influences upper air patterns across the southern United States.
For history tells us that the American Revolution was a radical departure from the normal state of affairs in which those in power determined the common good, and individual liberty by necessity had to yield to the needs of society.