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Purl is an example of postcrash syndrome among airline personnel: a deep trauma that combines survivor guilt, depression, rage and an array of physical symptoms ranging from digestive problems and hypertension to sleeplessness and heart ailments. Some survivors develop phobias or panic when they hear sounds that remind them of the crash, and many are so worn out by the continuing anguish that they say they are simply too tired to make even minor decisions about their lives. Says Psychiatric Sociologist Margaret Barbeau of Glendale, Calif.: "You can walk away from an accident without physical injury, but the emotional injury...
Venturesome companies are betting millions on shale as they plunge deep into development projects that could soon foster a new energy industry. TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief William Rademaekers reports from the heart of the U.S. shale country...
This is the Piceance Basin, the heart of a geological formation containing the world's biggest known deposit of oil shale. Locked in the mottled rock is the energy equivalent of about 1.2 trillion bbl. of oil, or roughly 40 times the nation's present proven reserves of liquid petroleum...
...researchers interviewed 1136 Florida wives, half widows whose husbands had died of heart attacks, and half wives whose husbands were still alive. Clinical Fellow in Medicine, Ward Casscells, who worked on the study, said "psychological stress" among retirees might be a contributing factor...
Stressing that the findings were only preliminary, Charles H. Henneken, assistant professor of Medicine, said he plans a more extensive study of the effects of "psycho-social" variables in producing heart attacks in elderly men. Coffee consumption, obesity, cigarette smoking, high blood pressure, prior heart disorder and high cholesterol counts are all common risk factors, Henneken added...