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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...have trouble finding buyers. Another is that the financial types who've been crying crisis have been crying wolf. But the housing market is in its worst slump since the Depression. Some debt markets have completely stopped functioning. The overindebted American consumer is showing signs of great stress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Visa Charges On | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...done though, each individual in the community must be willing to educate him or herself about mental health and be willing to take the initiative to care for their own wellbeing and the wellbeing of the community. Developing a caring campus, in part, depends on recognizing how excessive stress can be debilitating to individuals and then our entire community. In multiple surveys our students repeatedly report that stress is the major impediment to academic performance. Indeed, surveys consistently show that almost 50 percent of students feel overwhelmed in a way that has interfered with their academic work at some time...

Author: By Paul J. Barreira, Steven E. Hyman, and Matthew L. Sundquist | Title: A Culture of Caring | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...know, you didn’t give me much trouble growing up, Thesis darling. Some of your friends caused their parents no end of stress, but I never really had cause to complain. That’s not to say we didn’t have our rough spots. Round about December you made it really hard for me to give you structure, and for a while I just didn’t know what to do. And that week in February when I couldn’t figure out how to work with you, when I had no idea...

Author: By M. AIDAN Kelly | Title: Goodbye, Stack of Paper | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...Sternthal ’08, was indeed intrigued and decided to approach the group. “They have this meter: you put your hands on it and it starts jumping around,” he explains. “They’ll tell you that you look stressed out, and if you start saying that nothing’s wrong, everything’s all right, they’ll just ask over and over what you’re afraid of.” Shapiro recalls a similar experience in which she watched the Scientologists measure...

Author: By Sarah B. Schechter, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Invasive Evangelism | 2/27/2008 | See Source »

...three if a woman is over 40. Sweden and Belgium allow only one. Many lawmakers are driven less by moral than medical concerns, for the health of mother and baby and the costs associated with premature and multiple births. Professional associations in the U.S. also favor limits but stress the need to treat each case individually; they recommend a maximum of five embryos implanted in a woman over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Someone to Play God | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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