Word: stress
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...will host the Crimson on Dec. 14. The Eagles have the benefit of three returning starters, including junior guard Amber Jacobs, the team’s leading scorer with 11.9 ppg. The return of senior All-America candidate Becky Gottstein after suffering from multiple stress fractures last year may propel BC even farther forward...
...essential to creating a safe environment at Harvard for all students. Since October, the committee has been visiting each House to gather student input about sexual assault. The next meeting will take place tomorrow in the Cabot House Living Room at 7 p.m. Students should take this opportunity to stress the need for these changes. Students should send letters by e-mail to leancomm@fas or through university mail expressing their concerns. Any student wishing to set up a private, confidental meeting with the committee to speak about these issues is encouraged to do so and should e-mail...
Discouragement and stress are serious issues for ghost workers. "Already we're coping with 9/11 and the possibility of war with Iraq," says Michael Faenza, a social worker and head of the National Mental Health Association. "On top of that, the larger workload and stress on productivity leave workers less able to focus on the work at hand. It can lead to depression, anxiety, substance abuse...
Some companies look to kill costs and ghost-work stress with a single stone: unpaid vacations. Since BellSouth offered unpaid leave to its 80,000 remaining employees in July, almost half have grabbed it--saving the Atlanta-based telephone company $14 million in payroll costs. Some firms, though, have made unpaid vacations mandatory. Last year Dell demanded that workers take one-week vacations without pay. "That had a lot of people grumbling," says an employee...
...skiing, you're probably on vacation, and if you're on vacation, you're probably tired of using your head. Why not think with your feet for a change? Head's new i.C 300 skis are made from a special material that reacts to physical stress by generating electricity. Each i.C 300 ski has a computer chip in it that monitors its electrical output, thus allowing the ski to make an educated guess about the condition of the snow you're skiing on and how hard you're turning. The chip then feeds that signal back into the ski, which...