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Graphics by Thomas H. Howlett and Thomas J. Meyer...
...recent years doctors have come to recognize another psychological factor that drastically increases an individual's susceptibility to heart attacks and other stress-related illnesses: Type A behavior. First identified by San Francisco Cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, Type A has two main components, both of which can be recognized by giving standardized personality tests or conducting careful interviews with the patients. Says Friedman: "First, there is the tendency to try to accomplish too many things in too little time. Second, there is free-floating hostility. These people are irritated by trivial things; they exhibit signs of struggle...
About 200 students evacuated Ballow Hall Saturday after sitting in to protest Tufts President Jean Mayor's refusal to grant tenure to Assistant Professor Peter Dreier. On Sunday, students picnicked on the lawn on Meyer's home and formed 11 committees to tackle the issue of student participation in tenure decisions...
...That was almost three minutes faster than the previous women's record for the distance, held jointly by New Zealand's Allison Roe and Norway's Crete Waitz. Incredibly, Benoit finished less than 14 minutes after the men's winner, Greg Meyer, 27, who crushed his own competition with a time of 2:09. Said Women's Runner-Up Jacqueline Gareau of Canada: "The 2:20 marathon is the next mark for women now. We're getting nearer and nearer...
...library patrons, however, are sometimes surprised--"The bats do dive upon people sometimes if they've been disturbed, and some people don't really like that. But that's mostly people who don't use the library very much because they don't know the bats are here," said Meyer secretary Kathy Fehrn. "But we're used to it," she added. "For us it's just, 'Oh god, there's another bat.'" --The Stanford Daily