Word: stress
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...through the Baltic Sea in each of the past three years. As host of the summit, Germany has proposed a comprehensive agenda for world leaders ranging from more aid to Africa to persuading the U.S. to agree to a timetable for addressing climate change. But the meeting will also stress the importance of lowering existing barriers to investment and trade worldwide, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressing in the runup to the summit that "it is about mutuality, reciprocity." These are virtues that the freewheeling Baltic Sea countries pioneered in the 1200s and now embody once again...
...highest incidence of AIDS in Honduras, after the port city of San Pedro Sula. Health care workers on the island say that one in seven people is infected with HIV on Roatan (the figure for the United States is one in 250). But this is a conservative estimate, they stress, because local superstitions and shame still prevent many who may be infected from seeking help...
...their teaching and administrators can have some level of oversight over instructors. It has been argued that, in doing so, professorial autonomy would be limited, but this consideration is vastly less important than the imperative to improve education at Harvard College. As the year ends, we wish to stress the importance of CUE guide evaluations and urge the University to make them mandatory for both professors and students. We hope that lengthening the window in which CUE guide evaluations can be filled out aids in this matter; we are optimistic that Harvard students take them seriously. But without cooperation...
...adult I see a box as a chore. It has to be packed, taped, carried downstairs. This morning, I saw a box on my carpet and saw myself as a child and as an adult—and then I saw a much sadder reality: Amid all the stress and responsibility of “adulthood,” my imagination has slipped away. Something about the bumps and bruises we get as we age critically injures that mysterious part of our brain that lets us marvel at the world. To me, having an active imagination means maintaining a certain...
...child abuse and parental stress receive more sympathetic attention in the Japanese media, there's hope that the country may be able halt this growing social rot. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has run on a platform of restoring Japan's traditional values - the right kind of rhetoric if he can actually help reknit Japan's broken families. Saimura notes that the health ministry just began funding a new service that will dispatch volunteers to visit the homes of new parents and provide support if they're struggling. The program is tragically too late for some children, but it sure beats...