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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...
...magic to this," says Dr. Tumseh Salah, who is managing the Swat Valley vaccination program. "You immunize enough kids, and you can stop the virus." Indeed, the eradication program has been a spectacular success. In its 16 years of operation, the number of countries where polio remains a chronic problem has fallen from 125 to just six: Egypt, Niger, Nigeria, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. (In all of Asia, just 34 cases were reported in the first six months of the year.) But a vast and unstinting effort is required to achieve and maintain those results. In Afghanistan, Pakistan and India...
...would face in his job as vice director of economic development in Taizhou, one of the fastest-growing cities in one of China's fastest-growing provinces, Zhejiang. Instead, he found himself tackling a problem that seemed more appropriate for a Third World backwater than a Chinese boomtown: a chronic shortage of electricity. Last year, Taizhou's economy grew at an astounding 15%, but all the gleaming new factories pushed electrical consumption up by 21%. Local power stations are able to provide only about half of the juice demanded by the city and its 5.4 million residents, so even...
...that's just the start. People in happy marriages also have less acute and chronic illness, better-functioning immune systems, fewer fatal accidents, less susceptibility to alcohol abuse, and lower rates of depression, schizophrenia and suicide. In stable relationships, partners help each other by encouraging good health habits, such as routine mammograms and colonoscopies, and discouraging bad habits like smoking...
...awful lot of passages like "In mid-month, Hillary and I flew to St. Louis, where I signed the Mississippi River flood relief legislation ... Then we flew on to Denver, where we welcomed Pope John Paul II to the United States." Of course, those sorts of passages are a chronic disease in presidential memoirs...