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There is actually a very rational reason why these winners in life continue coming out for a losing team. "It keeps me sane," says Ben Faber, a freshman who plans to study theoretical physics. The school is a notorious pressure cooker, where even the summers are filled with high-stakes science. For example, freshman Ryan Elmquist will be mixing molecules for a Nobel Prize--winning chemist this summer. ("Ryan is going to be loving proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy," says the grad student supervising Elmquist's work.) Even a crushing loss can be something of an escape...
...He’ll do that role one better as the titular serial killer on “Dexter.” Loved Mary-Louise Parker’s nervy energy in “Angels in America”? Wait until you see her in the pressure cooker that is “Weeds”!The latest in this cavalcade of premise-heavy, actor’s-delight series is AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” the story of Walter White, a high school chemistry teacher who turns to cooking crystal meth...
...couple, security for the kids and stability for society. Plenty of spouses--at least after the first wedded year--just come to see it as a whole lot of work. And why shouldn't they? Pair up any two people with often clashing needs, add the pressure-cooker variables of kids, doctor bills, career, housework, car repairs and the fact that someone--he knows who he is--can't pull himself away from the TV during college-basketball season, and there are bound to be problems. Marriage is criticized as a source of stress (and it is), conflict (that...
...with the 39 hopefuls vying for an oar in the boat. That meant very early mornings and punishing physical exertion, often in filthy weather. He came away with more than the usual platitudes about teamwork and persistence. Like high-level executive teams, Oxbridge rowing crews operate in stressful, pressure-cooker environments. Both are made up of ambitious players from diverse backgrounds whose personalities often have edges as sharp as their talents...
These great institutions have seen new arrivals suddenly realize that being a member of such a world-renowned pressure-cooker may not be so great after all. Every year New York seems to see another fine free agent acquisition’s career burn out, and Harvard faces the arrival of many a freshman for whom endless open houses and Annenberg ice cream are cold comfort in the face of a newfound anonymity amongst fellow lifelong standouts. Both departing Yankees great Alex Rodriguez and, by his own admission, UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 nearly cracked under...