Word: stress
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...Guess who?s having the last laugh? The scientists, who together proved that the vast majority of stomach ulcers were caused by bacteria-not stress, spicy food or alcohol-are officially Nobel Laureates. In awarding the prize today, the Nobel committee commented that the pair had fundamentally altered the scientific view of a disease that affects up to five million people in the U.S. each year. Asked how winning the Nobel Prize would affect his future, Warren replied with a West Australian?s typical laconic self-deprecation: "Yeah, we'll have to come to Sweden...
This is microsurgery in a dollhouse, eight hours a day, with plenty of pressure; there are stress-relief posters in the hallway. But the mood is eerily calm. "Sometimes you knock something over and lose a lot of work," says Fabrice Joubert, who earlier worked on five DreamWorks cartoons, "but you have to be very...
...should keep in mind that there is an important difference between stress and anxiety. Stress is an inevitable component of our lives, and it can actually be a force that motivates us to work toward achieving our goals. Anxiety, however, is a force that is detrimental to our progress, and occurs when our stress reaches levels so high that we are no longer productive...
...eliminate stress in your life, because that is impossible—you cannot avoid the problem set you have due on Friday, the frazzled call from your aunt, or the guy that keeps calling you 10 times a night. Instead, you need to figure out the best way to cope with the different stresses in your life right now and prevent them from crossing the boundary into the realm of “anxiety...
...sent to a boot camp for wayward teens in Ensenada, Mexico. Olsen says the facility, Casa by the Sea, required residents to wear shoes without backs so they couldn't run. He says that as punishment for a three-meal hunger strike, he was forced to sit in a stress position--cross-legged, with his nose touching a wall--for two hours. Olsen's small face, which is framed by a pop-star haircut that makes him look as though he's still 15, scrunches with tears when he gets to the next part: "I could only come home when...