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...area, researchers found that the level of stress reported by the children's parents had a significant impact on the kids' susceptibility to other common contributors to asthma - namely exposure to pollution from traffic and secondhand smoke. Scientists found that children whose parents described themselves as stressed and anxious were 50% more likely to develop asthma than kids with non-stressed parents - at least when these youngsters were also exposed to pollution in a high-traffic, urban setting. (Read "The Year in Medicine 2008: From...
...Alaska Governor Sarah Palin announced her intention to resign on July 3, many assumed there must be a looming scandal. Why else make the surprise announcement late in the afternoon before the July 4 holiday - the equivalent of a news black hole - in tones that varied from angry to anxious? Palin even hauled her husband back from a commercial fishing trip to be by her side...
...relaxed view of the virus, although he says no one would intentionally expose their children to the disease. "I don't know any parents seriously considering the idea of a swine flu party, but I think parents have seen how mild the illness is and are no longer anxious about their children contracting the illness," he says. Health officials may wince at such sangfroid in the face of the virus, but, says Cummings: "Parents are shrugging their shoulders. If the kids...
After a 40% rally in the S&P 500 off its March market lows, Wall Street strategists had been expecting a market pullback, or consolidation, as part of an orderly advance. But investors are also increasingly anxious that stocks have risen too far and too fast relative to prospective earnings. Even after the decline on June 16, stocks still sell at more than 20 times their expected earnings for 2009 - far from cheap. (See pictures of scared traders...
...moment of social and cultural pageantry, the visit was a hit. But it carried an anxious subtext. The Great Recession has struck museums and performing-arts groups with a vengeance. No one expects the Federal Government to bail them out. But the people who run these organizations--and the people who care about them--were eager to see in the First Lady's appearances a sign that the White House knows just how bad things have gotten for them...