Word: reason
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...relief for exhausted parents, but for thousands in Cleveland it is bringing only anxiety. A federal judge on Tuesday struck down the city?s school voucher program, which had allowed as many as 5 percent of Cleveland?s students to attend private or parochial schools at taxpayers? expense. The reason? The voucher program, said the judge, has the "primary effect of advancing religion" (80 percent of the city?s vouchers are used in religious schools). Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. ordered the program halted until a trial determines whether it violates the constitutional separation of church and state, leaving...
...city?s storied nightlife. Berlin had been Germany?s historic capital, and the establishment of the West German government in Bonn was an expression of postwar trauma (and an acknowledgment of the difficulties of operating in isolated West Berlin). "Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made clear after the war that the reason they chose Bonn was precisely because they were looking for a city without a history," says Wallace. The return to Berlin, its reviled wall now shattered into millions of sobering souvenirs, is a sign then that after the horrors of Nazism and the Cold War, Germany is finally ready...
...problem is, most of us don't take fatigue seriously enough to do anything more than complain about it to each other. Or we worry, sometimes with reason, that if the source of our malaise isn't obvious after a few blood tests, our physicians will consider us hypochondriacs and malingerers. One survey found that 25% of patients in doctors' offices were so tired that their condition interfered with their normal activities but that only half of them actually talked to their physician about...
...worn out for no apparent reason for two or more weeks and have trouble keeping up your usual routine...
...doctors treat it like background noise," says Dr. Benjamin Natelson, a neurosciences expert at the University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School, in Newark, N.J., and the author of Facing and Fighting Fatigue (Yale University Press, $15.95). But even if your physician can't pinpoint a specific reason for your fatigue, there are ways to manage it. For instance, Natelson has found, somewhat to his surprise, that gentle conditioning exercises such as tai chi help some of his patients with chronic-fatigue syndrome. Similar results have been reported for folks being treated for cancer and long-term hepatitis...