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Chronic stressors that alter a person's role in society or sense of himself and show no sign of ending, such as unemployment, permanent disability or the need to care for a parent with dementia, are bad news. They have significantly negative effects on almost all immune functions...
...years. In Notes on the State of Virginia, Jefferson presented dire warnings about what might happen to the U.S. political system in a worst-case scenario, but his words turned out to be a more accurate prophecy for America's plundered neighbor: "The spirit of the times ... will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt ... The shackles ... which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of war will remain on long, will be made heavier and heavier." Given a fair chance, Haiti could have flourished and prospered. If that had been the case, this year Haiti would be celebrating...
...There is no reason for [Rothenberg] to alter his willingness to serve on that position,” Freadhoff said. “He is still anxious to lend his time to the University...
...increasingly irrelevant to the people he presides over. Iraqis generally seem to view Bremer as an aloof, remote figure. "He doesn't know us, and he doesn't want to know us,'' says Baghdad schoolteacher Kamel al-Hasni. Bremer says there is little he could have done to alter that perception and he doesn't particularly care about it either. "I just do the best I can, and the chips will fall as they may," he says. "I didn't come here to be loved. I came here...
...Donahue said the potential loss in funding would not alter Harvard’s commitment to need-blind admissions...