Word: stress
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...Women: Restoring Women Then and Now, to head an influential Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel on women's health policy. Sources tell Time that the agency's choice for the advisory panel is Dr. W. David Hager, an obstetrician-gynecologist who also wrote, with his wife Linda, Stress and the Woman's Body, which puts "an emphasis on the restorative power of Jesus Christ in one's life" and recommends specific Scripture readings and prayers for such ailments as headaches and premenstrual syndrome. Though his resume describes Hager as a University of Kentucky professor, a university official says Hager...
...simply putting pressure on oneself to have a strong application for Harvard often “destroyed the joys of just being an adolescent.” Moreover, he worried that this self-imposed competitiveness often “carries over into undergraduate life with excessive levels of stress and interferes with the ability of [Harvard students] to explore interests and enjoy their college experiences...
...truth—or, perhaps, the cheery truth—is that pressure here is entirely self-inflicted. It is perfectly possible to coast through, working very little and obtaining what, in pre-gender equality days, used to be called Gentleman’s Cs. Yet, to hear students stress and strain over pointless problem sets and redundant response papers, one would assume that Harvard demanded constant academic brilliance in order to remain within its exclusive ranks. Let’s destroy this canard once and for all: You do not need to work nearly as hard once you?...
That said, Harvard rightly goes out of its way to choose students whom it knows will not waste the wonderful resources at their disposal here. Lewis himself is keen to stress the positive effects of competitiveness, which he says “drives excellence.” But excellence and the need to excel are far from the same thing. Grasping this fundamental dichotomy would rectify any number of problems at Harvard, ranging from rampant grade inflation to the stagnant social scene...
...extra stress, 25 lbs more than Rose usually squatted, strained his back, and an MRI showed bulging discs at vertabrae L4-L5 and L5-S1. The discs were rubbing against the sciatic nerve...