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...black cami. “So here’s the deal,” says Chen, frantically pinning a few of the abandoned flowers to the back of the skirt. “I had a panic attack and nixed the whole flower idea. Then I went to sleep.” As Chen continues to talk, her design begins to materialize into a sexy black top and high-waisted A-line shirt. The revived flowers, decorating a wide lace train, pull it all together. Finally, by 11:45, Chen is done—with a mere but appropriate...
With three lectures, a section, a punch event and a problem set, time looks tight for Lucy W. Baird ’10. “I have literally 3 hours if I want to sleep, and I do,” says Baird, who came in fourth in last fall’s challenge. But she isn’t sweating the time crunch. Baird sets off for Chinatown minutes after receiving her theme and the allotted 24 dollars. She heads straight to her favorite fabric store, and deftly navigates the cramped aisles in search of anything dark blue?...
...first scene, Sara immediately erupts into a rant about how she has inherited her explosive rage from her father. David proceeds to describe his own anger, so affected by his indifference towards life that even it is apathetic; the way in which he copes with his temper is to sleep. As the play progresses, the two trade off their storytelling in a series of anecdotes that involves Sara’s hatred of everyone she knows and David’s unwillingness to try anything remotely new. Eventually, both realize that their jaded perspectives conceal well-developed defense mechanisms against...
...best advice, however, may be to weigh the intangibles. Don't skimp on the pleasure you might get from waking with the sun and going to sleep to the sound of crickets just because you can't calculate a market value for them. In cities, says John Ikerd, an agricultural economist and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, "people buy things like views, good schools, health clubs and privacy." In the country, he says, be prepared to assign a value of perhaps $100,000 to the simple asset of quality of life. Do that, and peaceful living starts...
There are a number of ways that stress can recalibrate our physical machinery. For starters, stressed-out people tend to neglect their health in general - they eat poorly, sleep badly, don't exercise and smoke and drink too much - behaviors that don't exactly promote well-being. Stress also triggers the body's endocrine systems, prompting the release of hormones that play out in the body in a variety of ways: they might, for instance, irritate lymphatic tissue that in turn alters our immune functions, or they might simply cause the resting heart to beat faster. "Anybody who has almost...