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...Pacific Tea Co., the A&P, an urban power that once ran nearly 16,000 U.S. stores. Competitors quaked before it. This is the history of retailing. It says that every company that has reached No. 1, from Woolworth's to Kmart, has eventually spit the bit, unable to cope with market shifts. Wal-Mart is a far superior operator to any of those has-beens--it will produce $20 billion in operating income this year. But being king is an awfully heavy weight to bear, and Wal-Mart is feeling the strain...
...important stress levels are to physical health, we're simultaneously cramming appointments into shorter and shorter periods of time," says Dr. Daniel Brotman, director of the 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...
...asked to contemplate the occasion of their own demise, people become happier than usual, instead of sadder, according to a new study in the November issue of Psychological Science. Researchers say it's a kind of psychological immune response - faced with thoughts of our own death, our brains automatically cope with the conscious feelings of distress by nonconsciously seeking out and triggering happy feelings, a mechanism that scientists theorize helps protect us from permanent depression or paralyzing despair...
...both Yale (12-5, 6-2 Ivy) and Brown (5-14, 3-6), as the squad continued to struggle in Ivy League play. Friday night, the Crimson (7-15, 2-8) traveled to New Haven, Conn., losing in straight sets to a strong Bulldogs side. Harvard was unable to cope with Yale’s aggressive play and, according to the players, did not stick to its game plan for much of the weekend.Following the tough loss, Harvard had a much-improved display against Brown Saturday afternoon. The Crimson was able to take a game but found itself unable...
Harvard students are less stressed than their colleagues at similar institutions, including five Ivy League schools, according to a 2006 survey assessing student wellbeing released yesterday. Harvard consistently scored well in areas such as life satisfaction and ability to cope with emotion in the survey, conducted by the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescence and Young Adults. The survey found about 6.26 percent of Harvard students reported suffering from significant academic stress, compared with a reported average of 6.5 percent at other schools. The psychological rewards students receive from academic rigor contribute to the low rates...