Word: st
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Bay Area residents may be peculiarly vulnerable to the syndrome, precisely because they have been anticipating a cataclysm for years. "Chronic stress is very harmful," notes Dr. James Shore of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver, who surveyed victims of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. "Preparedness can make people more susceptible...
There are other distress signals as well. Interest in food or sex often flags, while indulgence in alcohol or drugs deepens. People may be jumpy and their tempers short. In the first seven months after the Mount St. Helens blowup, reports of domestic violence in Othello, Wash., increased 45%, and criminal arrests went up 22%, according to one study. The most profound impact is a new sense of vulnerability. Victims wonder when disaster will strike again and conjure up fresh calamities. "Disasters like earthquakes challenge a fundamental fantasy that we live with: that we're immortal," explains psychiatrist David Spiegel...
...blond good looks are sure to be an asset in image-conscious Los Angeles, is even more adventurous. "The Salonen appointment in Los Angeles indicates an orchestra possibly trying to change the image of what an orchestra might be about," says Leonard Slatkin, 45, the innovative conductor of the St. Louis Symphony...
...eras -- Marilyn Monroe with her air-blown skirt at thigh level, or Louise Brooks of the silents, purring beneath a helmet of slinky black hair. Particularly to the French, there is more than one archetypical image of Josephine Baker, who danced her way out of the hovels of East St. Louis to become the world's first black international star. From the Roaring Twenties came a Baker persona at once erotic and comic: prancing topless on a Paris music-hall stage, with eyes crossed as if to spoof her naked sensuality. Later came the vision of La Baker, a glamorous...
...dare. The California firm, which provides equipment to protect mainframes against interlopers, challenged U.S. computer hackers to crack its code during a weeklong contest. In messages sent to electronic bulletin boards frequently used by hackers, LeeMah promised that any successful code breaker would win a trip for two to St. Moritz or Tahiti. More than 7,000 phone calls came into LeeMah from dozens of hackers trying to beat the system, but none were able to retrieve the hidden message in the computer. The odds against them, estimated LeeMah: 720 quadrillion...