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...common with a lab rat that has spent five days in a refrigerated cage? More than you might think. Rats, like people, are prone to stress. No, they don't have to contend with deadlines or traffic jams, but when temperatures fall, their bodies exhibit classic signs of chronic stress. Indeed, several experiments performed by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, show that if the animals have access to sugary water and lard, they will forgo their normal, nutritious rat chow and load up on sweets and fats...
...There are other signs that Japan's economic fog is lifting. Despite their reputation for chronic unprofitability, the country's major listed companies posted a combined total annual income in fiscal 2002 that was 20% higher than in the previous record year of 1990, according to Merrill Lynch. Meanwhile, periodic routine government updates on key indicators, such as job growth, wage growth, executive sentiment and capital investment, have all revealed significant improvements. And most recently, the International Monetary Fund has joined the party, revising its projected 2003 economic-growth rate for Japan from 0.8% to 2.0%?while downgrading the Eurozone...
...What has turned the industrialized world's chronic underachiever into everybody's favorite comeback story is a stream of unexpectedly sunny economic news. The most notable number: the government's recent announcement that Japan's economy grew at a sprightly annualized rate of 3.9% in the second quarter of this year. Not only was that far greater than the already healthy 2.4% annualized rate previously forecast, but it was also the fastest growth rate during that quarter for any of the world's major industrialized economies...
...interview for The New York Times last Sunday, told reporters about the vast amount of TV he and his family watch. Citing several programs from “Dexter’s Laboratory” to “SpongeBob SquarePants” and his chronic use of TiVo, Powell claims, “we’re the kind of house that if I’m home working, the TV’s on.” Well, I suppose it should be comforting that someone with such vital influence over media regulation—and, ergo, influence...
...contributing to the spirit and pulse of this place. They move through their lives inconspicuously, and in virtually every way, their Harvard experience is just like anyone else’s, with one exception: they have survived one of the most traumatic violations of safety and well-being imaginable. Chronic underreporting means we will never know exactly how many Harvard students lives are changed by sexual violence. The Department of Justice’s National College Women Victimization Survey found that nearly 5 percent of college women will be sexually assaulted each year. That means at least 330 Harvard students...