Word: stress
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What was going on? To get to the bottom of it, Wittstein and his colleagues measured the levels of catecholamines--the family of stress hormones that includes adrenalin--that their patients were producing. In each case they found high levels of stress hormones--up to 34 times as great as normal levels and two to three times as great as those typically seen during severe heart attacks...
...says. On Easter Sunday, an Army major hand-delivered letters to Maupin's parents informing them that Matt was missing. The next day, the Army stormed Carolyn's home, where Matt had lived before shipping out. "There must have been 20 of them," Keith says. "There was a stress officer, a chaplain, a casualty-assistance officer." Neighbors plied the Maupins with casseroles, pies and deli trays--and an extra refrigerator to hold it all. The Marines sent Micah home temporarily from his base in Pensacola, Fla., and agreed not to send him overseas until his brother's case is resolved...
...people have signed up. NuRide CEO Rick Steele estimates that more than 50,000 rides have been arranged on the site, resulting in 1.4 million fewer miles driven and 650 fewer tons of automobile emissions. "I do it to save on gasoline and reduce my stress load," says Dan Kulpinski, a senior programming manager at America Online, who has arranged 100 trips, mostly for the 55-min. commute from his suburban Maryland home to his office in Sterling...
...have an MRI on Friday to find out if it’s a stress fracture,” Maludzinski said. “’Till then, I’m just crossing my fingers and exercising my vocal chords...
...whole Registrar grade process needs to be more transparent. Three different administrators in the Office of the Registrar refused to comment about the reasons behind the delay, denying even a student’s basic right to an explanation. Moreover, the office could have saved a lot of student stress if it had simply posted about the new extended date—a simple message that said grades would be up on Feb. 8 would have been more helpful than the frustrating message of the site’s last update. Or, better yet, the Registrar could make...