If you have finance skills and plan to volunteer at a soup kitchen, he says, one hour of your time is worth significantly more for the organization if you spend it helping with budgeting rather than doing a manual task like sorting cans.

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McCHESNEY: Rachel says that manual she was handed was inadequate for the task, and when an FRG comes unstuck like this one, it can spill over to the troops in Iraq.

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The new edition of the DSM will be the first to be updated electronically and is designed to be a "living document" that can take into account emerging science, though the details for updating the manual haven't been worked out yet, according to David Kupfer, head of the DSM task force that oversaw the revision.

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