Word: stress
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...continuing battle against depression and stress, Harvard’s student wellness organizations are teaming up to reach undergraduates—particularly freshmen—during this term’s reading period...
Elephants, whose memory is often celebrated, have also been thought by some experts to hold grudges. But "grudge" may be the wrong word - and it's not exactly a scientific term. More tenable than the notion of animals bearing grudges is the theory that they suffer stress. A 2005 paper in the journal Nature examined what some scientists called an "elephant breakdown" in Africa, and argued that elephants that had randomly attacked rhinoceroses were behaving pathologically. They were, the scientists suggested, suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder - terminology usually reserved for humans - responding to years of hardship, inflicted by people...
...acknowledges that human and animal psychology are not the same, but says they hold more similarities than we tend to think. Like Schore, she's reluctant to use the word "grudge" when it comes to animals' motivations. But she believes that animals, like humans, can suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, of which captivity is a key trigger, and can act abnormally...
...final goal, which is to help people live in a clean environment or to have healthcare or education, certain things like that where you should really work together as a party and just say what can we do together to improve education or the environment. We have to stress that post-partisanship or bi-partisanship in all of those things. We've seen it over and over when both parties work together, it happens. And what we're trying to promote always is: try to put your loyalty to the people not towards your party. We're not party servants...
...reason for that is clear enough. At a time of extreme stress in global-equity and credit markets, many governments have surplus foreign exchange to play with--and because of the falling U.S. dollar, they are increasingly interested in investing their cash where it can earn greater returns than it would from U.S. Treasury debt, the traditional haven. The largest SWFs--the so-called Super Seven, comprising China, Russia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Norway and two Singapore funds--control up to $1.8 trillion. By 2011, assets held by SWFs worldwide are projected to grow almost fourfold, to nearly $8 trillion...