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...major emotional distress disorders in Japan are familiar enough: schizophrenia, depression, alcoholism. But the neuroses are often culture-bound, centered on the overwhelming sense of obligation and dependence. Shinkeishitsu (nervous temperament), for example, involves hypersensitivity, perfectionism, social withdrawal or total discomfort in unfamiliar surroundings...
...death as in life, Vicki Morgan showed a tawdry penchant for causing discomfort in high places. Last year the sometime model, then 29, filed a $5 million lawsuit against Ronald Reagan's multi-millionaire friend and adviser Alfred Bloomingdale, contending that he had promised to support her in return for having been his mistress for twelve years. She lost the suit, Bloomingdale died of cancer, and a mortified White House may have thought it had heard the last of her. But last week, after Morgan had been found bludgeoned to death in her North Hollywood apartment and her roommate...
...Jose. The California assembly, following the lead of eight cities in Santa Clara County that have passed ordinances to prevent such spills, has approved a tough toxic control law. As the measure moves on to the state senate, the mellow industrialists of Silicon Valley, to their acute discomfort, find themselves accused of poisoning their own hot tubs...
...disease or cataracts. Moreover, the report placed the blame for many ailments associated with VDTs on such environmental factors as poor lighting and stressful office conditions. Summed up Panel Chairman Edward Rinalducci, a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology: "Our general conclusion is that eye discomfort, blurred vision and other visual disturbances, muscular aches and stress reported among VDT workers are probably not due to anything inherent in VDT technology...
...medical doctor, Norman Thagard, 39, the first member of that fraternity in the shuttle. His special task is to look into "space adaptation syndrome," the queasiness that afflicts so many astronauts during the first hours of weightlessness. True to her cool image, Ride showed no signs of discomfort...