Word: stress
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...design of Tezuka's pages endlessly varies in shape and flow to reflect the action of a sequence or a character's state of mind. He never shies away from crazy experimentation, as when one panel uses a distorted photograph in a character's word balloon to emphasize the stress of the moment...
...stress on connecting “what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard” and the nebulous concept of “global citizenship” blend together to create a set of meaninglessly broad curricular areas. Furthermore, in noting that few Harvard undergraduates intend to pursue academic careers, the report argues that the Core’s “emphasis on the disciplines may be misplaced.” But Harvard is, for better or for worse, a liberal arts college and not a technical or pre-professional school. The suggestion that we should avoid...
...John Connally with that charisma, or Lyndon Johnson with his sense of get it done." But what Perry loses from the corporate Republican crowd in Dallas and Houston, he gains in the heavily Hispanic Rio Grande Valley and in rural areas. While his TV ads stress border security, he works hard on relationships with Mexico and calls the idea of a border wall "ludicrous...
...Numbers 1,508 Average number of condoms sold per day by South Korea's Family Mart convenience stores 1,930 Average daily number of condoms they sold in the week following North Korea's Oct. 9 nuclear test, prompting speculation that stress from the test led to a rise in sexual activity among South Koreans...
...Stumbling Toward Democracy Andrew Marshall's viewpoint on Thailand's military coup, "Dictators' Delight" [Oct. 9], would have been more appropriately titled "A Dictator's Demise." Before the coup the stress level of all educated and well-informed Thais was at an all-time high. It seemed inevitable that Thai blood would flow on Bangkok's streets. The army's intervention against Thaksin Shinawatra's autocratic rule came as a great relief to Thais, who had been living on edge for at least the past year. Marshall seems to believe in democracy for democracy's sake. Under Thaksin's five...