Word: stress
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...know why they?re all crying, right? A farewell, losing, stress and, well, the whole point of daytime chat shows and Starting Over is to exhaust a thesaurus of synonyms for "closure." But there are flavors of sadness and specific qualities of joy, let alone a whole basketful of motivations for tears...
...animal diseases, such as trichinosis. Warming could probably also damage public-health infrastructure--sewage systems, water pipes and reservoirs--as the permafrost on which it was built melts. And for Inuit communities, already reordering rapidly through modernization, the extra social dislocation brought by a warmer climate may bring stress, mental health problems and increased substance abuse. On the positive side, frostbite may decrease, along with cardiac problems brought on by heavy exertion in extreme cold...
...operation, and the doctor said, "I'm sorry, but I can't let you go back. It's too much stress." I said, "I totally understand. So how much stress do you think it'll be for me to be sitting at home while, say, another director finishes my film?" We had a nurse...
...games as soccer, more closely parallels the average Joe's routines, according to Paul Fournier, strength-and-conditioning director of the Florida Marlins. "As in everyday life, we see a lot of muscle-use imbalance in baseball players," says Fournier. "Overuse of the right arm, for example, or more stress on one side of the body because you're always running the same way around the bases...
...PIER: You want fresh? You got it. Fish at this Rose Bay restaurant, tel: (61-2) 9327 6561, are killed by the Japanese practice of ike jime (or driving a point through a fish's brain to kill it instantaneously, minimizing stress to the creature and so optimizing the flavor of its flesh). Staff also advise diners to eat "from the thin end" as the fish is still cooking when it arrives at your table. But chef Greg Doyle's dogmatic insistence on freshness and barely-there cooking pays divine dividends in such dishes as tuna belly with wasabi...