Word: commonnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well past the meeting's 9:30 p.m. start time, but no one seems to mind - many of them work multiple jobs and are used to odd hours. Seated in a semicircle of plastic chairs, the engineers, police officers, health-care workers and casino dealers have something in common: they are all addicted to gambling. The group meets once a week to hear Tan speak, and to share stories of angry spouses, loan sharks and backsliding. A young nurse who hadn't placed a bet in six months admits she relapsed four days earlier after a fight with her husband...
...money. They invest because they have a passion for horses and want to be more deeply involved with friends and family in the spectacle of thoroughbred racing. "It's amazing how quickly the bond develops between a group of grown adults whose only common interest is that they own a piece of horse flesh," says Harriet Rochester, a former British racing official who runs a syndicate...
...Hospitalist Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Brotman, too, believes an undeniable link exists between stress and heart disease. But given that most people cope with stress just fine, he says it's unrealistic to ask overworked doctors to screen every patient for an emotional condition that's common in modern life. "We say to ourselves as physicians, 'Well, there's not a lot I can do about the fact that your wife left you,'" Brotman says...
...Even if doctors become more aware of chronic stress as a precursor of heart trouble, the question of what to do about it has yet to be answered. While there are plenty of stress-reduction techniques - meditation and exercise are two common remedies - there has been little scientific evaluation of their effectiveness. Cohen, the Carnegie Mellon professor, says researchers should conduct clinical trials in order to identify the best treatments and to determine whether patients fare better when given those treatments. But even if such trials received funding, they could take years to complete. In the meantime, the best advice...
...seems that President Faust and Ellen Degeneres have more in common than their trendy pixie haircuts—both have serious doggie issues. FM has it on good word that Faust brings pup Clio to an animal behavioral clinic at Tufts. We got to wondering: just what is Clio telling her shrink? 1) Sometimes I feel like nobody on this campus knows who I am, and just treats me like any other dog. I’m the First Dog. I do my business in the digging site in the Yard. Respect me. 2) One of the archeology kids smacked...