Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such findings are not unusual in research on homosexuals. Pro-homosexual spokesmen generally argue that gays are placed under heavy stress by an anti-homosexual society. The Kinsey researchers make this point but add a new wrinkle: the evaluation that gay males as a group are not as well adjusted as heterosexuals results from a minority of social misfits dragging down the average...
...screen out those likely to commit atrocities. A British study showed that the soldier most likely to commit such acts is the mild-mannered, over-controlled type who goes berserk under heavy pressure. In Viet Nam, atrocities were frequently committed by those second in command, in high-stress jobs such as point...
...political life freedom conflicts with freedom; for example, the right to know may conflict with the right to privacy. That is why I agree with Solzhenitsyn that we cannot make an absolute of any specific good or freedom except the freedom of intelligence. Solzhenitsyn calls upon the West to stress obligations gather than rights. Our overriding obligation must be to "the moral obligation to be intelligent...
...girl's training need not be less vigorous than a boy's. Dr. Barbara Drinkwater, a research physiologist at the University of California's Institute of Environmental Stress, found that prepubertal girls are precisely the same as boys in cardio-respiratory (heart-lung) endurance capacity. Parents who worry about their young daughters overtaxing tender hearts while turning a fast 440 should realize that the human machine is designed to shut down -through leg cramps, side stitches, and dizziness-if the strain is too severe...
...researchers stress that at least three years will be needed to verify and refine the technique. Says Salmon: "This is not now a clinical test available in every hospital. Until it has had adequate testing, it should be considered only a promising research tool." Still, that promise is exciting. A Journal editorial accompanying the paper notes that "an effective and practical predictive test for antitumor agents would have a profound effect on the treatment of cancer...