Word: burnouts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...science staff set out to explore equally intriguing questions: Michael Lemonick discusses why memories can remain so vivid and visceral; Christine Gorman investigates how we can avoid burnout; J. Madeleine Nash exposes the wondrous world of mirror neurons, which play a key role in the development of language, empathy and human society; while Alice Park learns how brain science is contributing to marketing and advertising campaigns. In Manchester, Michael Brunton visits the Babylab, a research facility in England whose sole mission is to understand how babies' brains develop. TIME's talented graphics director, Jackson Dykman, managed to squeeze more than...
...consultations with career advisors, and Internet research on the qualifications, salary and duties for a range of jobs, students weed through options and select a career. During a PowerPoint presentation to classmates reporting on her career research, a girl explains that she's attracted to counseling, despite the high burnout rate and meager staring salary, because "people need someone to talk to about their problems and I think I'm good at listening and helping...
...triple what he makes as the FBI's No. 3. Better pay isn't the only motivation--one former senior FBI manager says he quit after tiring of the "constant berating" he got from lawmakers when briefing Congress. "All these factors play into a decision to leave: family, finances, burnout, pressure, criticism," he says. "You've worked your a__ off. Eventually you say, Hey, the heck with this...
...vast majority of our judges are good men and women, thank God, who do a tough job. They're inundated with cases," says Goyeneche, a former prosecutor. "[But] a small percentage are doing a disservice to the community and putting people at risk. Corruption explains some of it, also burnout and just callousness...
...makes sense for a President to make these kinds of changes, if only because of burnout. "People are tired," says a former White House official. "Everyone is pooped at this point." But the changes by themselves are not a panacea. The sources of Bush's woes - mostly fueled by Iraq but also including high oil prices and stymied policies like the partial privatization of Social Security - aren't likely to change until the policies themselves either change or yield better results. The staff turnovers that lead to new policies tend to work best. Those that just change names...