Word: burnout
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Most troubling of all, what about when enough ambition becomes way too much? Grand dreams unmoored from morals are the stuff of tyrants--or at least of Enron. The 16-hour workday filled with high stress and at-the-desk meals is the stuff of burnout and heart attacks. Even among kids, too much ambition quickly starts to do real harm. In a just completed study, anthropologist Peter Demerath of Ohio State University surveyed 600 students at a high-achieving high school where most of the kids are triple-booked with advanced-placement courses, sports and after-school jobs. About...
...Chalk it up, say Floridians, to blow burnout. With hurricanes hatching like Caribbean cockroaches, the state has had to gird for at least eight major storms in the past 14 months-four since June. "You just can't expect people to be on edge, to be ready for war, all the time," said doctor's aide Mike Dorsainbille, 31, as he waited for gas in Pompano Beach, in hard-hit Broward County. But any criticism of Florida paled in comparison to the scrutiny put on the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for which Wilma was a chance to redeem itself after...
...Also, school work saturation is never a good thing. Focusing on homework 100 percent of the time will not only get old, but will put you on the fast track to a burnout. One of the many wonderful aspects of extracurricular activities is that they provide “productive procrastination” (no, that is not an oxymoron) away from your academics. And yes, spending time with friends and just hanging out is also considered okay (even at Harvard...
Underground activities inevitably change character when thrust into the limelight. Comedy Central made remote-controlled fighting robots famous with its show Battlebots, and in doing so contributed to the rapid burnout of the sport. Snowboarders lost their counterculture mystique, and their boards are more plastered with corporate logos than your average NASCAR racer. And baseketball? Don’t even get us started. Beirut is facing the same fate. Lebanon is being slowly Westernized despite continuing political strife, and it’s character is gradually changing under the weight of French and American corporate interests. Stores from Starbucks...
...story on how the French and Dutch rejection of the E.U. constitution derailed the movement toward a united Europe drew mail from those who celebrated the no votes as a defeat of Brussels bureaucrats. Disappointed supporters of Continental integration mourned a missed opportunity Re "Brussels Burnout" [June 13]: by voting against its ratification, the people of France and the Netherlands did not reject the European constitution. They rejected the fat cats sitting in Brussels who get rich at Europeans' expense and arrogantly tell us how to live. The E.U. has the most undemocratic political system, but it could work very...