Word: chronics
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...stressful situations. Even after accounting for other mood problems, like depression or anger, and for a whole host of physiological and demographic indicators - including age, body mass index, education, blood pressure, cholesterol levels and smoking and drinking habits - the effect of chronic anxiety was clear. It was also a stronger risk factor for heart attack than any of the other psychological problems in the study...
...reform would not be more federal spending on teachers or preschool, but more arts education, stricter teacher testing and a new federal push for home schooling or charter schools. When he speaks of health care, he talks not of new federal benefits, but of more focus on prevention for chronic disease like diabetes and tax breaks for health savings...
...risk. "It means that even small amounts of inexpensive and easy-to-perform exercise - just walking - can be of help to protect you against brain vascular damage," says Dr. Giovanni Ravaglia, the study's lead author, "and this is a type of exercise that even older disabled people with chronic disease can do without too much trouble...
...naive to believe that Jerusalem could become an independent sovereign city-state like the Vatican? Let the international community via the U.N. take the initial responsibility to make it safe and available to all people and religions, ending this chronic, divisive tug-of-war. Ken Lomasney, HOMER GLEN...
...allegedly failing to report the unlawful sex act to police. (The player's charges were eventually dropped after he completed a pre-trial diversion program; the principal pleaded not guilty and his trial is pending. The girl, meanwhile, has since attempted suicide.) Heaped on top of Northwestern's chronic academic failures, the case was widely viewed as yet another example of a high school mimicking the warped, football-centric priorities for which many U.S. colleges have long been criticized...