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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first set of residents, all men, did their own cleaning and maintenance but hired Radcliffe women to cook dinner for $10 a night. In the fall of 1966, James G. Maslach ’69 instituted the practice that Co-opers would prepare their own dinners in order to save money, a custom that lives on today. The Co-op began housing women by the early...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Half-Century of Flouting the Mainstream at Dudley Co-op | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...also have a lot of misconceptions about who gets stressed out and why. Twenty years ago, psychologists almost exclusively blamed job stress on high workloads or lack of control on the job. More recent studies, says Christina Maslach, a pioneer in burnout research at the University of California, Berkeley, show that unfairness and a mismatch in values between employees and their companies play an increasing role in triggering stress. "Probably one of the strongest predictors is when there's a vacuum of information--silence about why decisions were made the way they were," Maslach says. "Another is having to operate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brain: 6 Lessons for Handling Stress | 1/19/2007 | See Source »

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