After returning from Iraq in late 2005, Jonathan Schulze spent every day struggling not to fall apart.

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Patricia Foulkrod, a veteran director and producer of documentaries, cuts the recollections and ruminations into fragments and then reassembles the fragments into chronological stages: recruitment, boot camp, combat, return, followed by the long, dismaying coda, in which the men and women struggle not to fall apart.

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That means when the data show demographic imbalances in the tens of millions China is not going to fall apart.

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We are not going to fall apart.

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Research in Motion may not need a few years to fall apart.

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They are making sure the operation does not fall apart, and are determined to pass control to Afghans as soon as possible.

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Each one told me how they took time off, retreating into the unknown, tolerating (though not enjoying) the uncertainty, allowing things to fall apart without rushing to put them back together.

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Not wanting to watch some of its key trading partners fall apart, the big emerging markets are sending in the rescue team.

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That means we have to get behind stable families, not shrug our shoulders when they fall apart.

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