Word: anxiousness
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...page to the reams of possible causes of the disorder, which affects more than 1 in 250 girls and young women in the U.S. alone. The doctors' study, which compared the infancy and early childhood of 40 anorexic girls and 40 healthy girls, suggests that the behavior of overprotective, anxious mothers can contribute to their daughters' eventual anorexia. These anxiety-ridden mothers may share the fear of losing their daughters; 25 percent of the anorexic girls' mothers had experienced a miscarriage or stillbirth before their daughters were born, as opposed to only 7.5 percent of the healthy girls' mothers...
Good news for anxious boomers: playing jazz keeps you young. At the end of a quarter-century of grueling one-nighters, guitarist Pat Metheny still has the same easy small-town grin and messy mop of gopher brown hair seen on the back cover of his very first solo album; he also has a 15-month-old son, Nicolas Djakeem, on whom he dotes in between far-flung gigs. Twenty-five years and 25 albums after his hugely influential Bright Size Life helped nudge jazz and rock closer together, Metheny, 45, continues to play for delighted crowds everywhere from Istanbul...
Though Harvard is involved in cooperative discussions with the Allston community, the University is not anxious to overstep its bounds...
...Rubens, the most popular artist of the previous generation and a court painter of the Spanish Habsburgs. A good chunk of this thick, richly illustrated book is about Rubens' background and family; Rembrandt himself is barely mentioned for an entire chapter. Schama compares paintings and history to show the anxious influence at work between Rembrandt and his older, more popular precursor. Rembrandt, Schama says, was the Great Dutch Hope, the painter whom Holland sought to "transform the physically unprepossessing specimens of the European dynasts... into so many Apollos and Dianas," just as Rubens had for the Habsburgs...
Less glaring but equally important is Assad's sense of his own mortality. Pushing 70 and in ill health, this past year Assad witnessed the passing of his colleagues King Hassan of Morocco and King Hussein of Jordan. The aged Syrian leader is anxious to make peace in order to consecrate his legacy while he still can. At the same time, before leaving Syria's political stage Assad would like to ensure a smooth succession for his relatively untested son Bashar. Reaching an agreement now will allow his son to organize his regime without the additional headache of contending with...