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STRESS CITY The latest round in the coffee debate: four to five cups in the morning can cause adrenaline levels to shoot up by 34%--and remain high for hours afterward. Blood pressure rises slightly too, according to research published last week. The same reactions occur when you're under stress--and no doubt take a toll on health. Evidence? New research shows that in New York--the epicenter of stress--death rates from heart attack are 55% higher than the U.S. average...
...Cuban roots. His Lydia moves with stoic grace through decades of caring for a sickly husband, guiding her children to successful adulthoods and straightening up other people's digs. That she had been a head-turning beauty and proud daughter of a mayor in pre-Castro Cuba would not occur to someone sitting opposite her on the subway. Yet as a character endowed with romantic yearnings, she is hard to ignore. Hijuelos' episodic format doesn't quite gel. But that is more than offset by his emotional fine tuning and pitch-perfect prose...
...PSLM member and Undergraduate Council representative gave him the opportunity to organize yesterday's rally. Since his council position on the Committee on College Life allows him to ask a question at Faculty meetings, Shuldiner said he had been a main proponent for scheduling the rally to occur during the Faculty meeting yesterday...
...three segments were to rupture simultaneously, an earthquake about three times as violent as the Northridge disaster could occur, Shaw said...
Nowhere was the tragic news from Europe watched with more concern than in the Rocky Mountains and the Cascades of the western U.S. Each year thousands of avalanches occur there without causing any damage. But with the rising popularity of backcountry skiing, more and more people are deliberately putting themselves in the way of the white death...