Word: stress
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HEART TO HEART Equality of the sexes, it seems, does not extend to matters of the heart. A new study suggests that men and women have strikingly different vulnerabilities to heart attack. For women, emotional stress from, say, divorce or the death of a loved one is more likely than physical stress to trigger sudden cardiac arrest. For men, the opposite is true. What accounts for the difference? Researchers suspect that levels of adrenaline, which can cause the heart to beat abnormally fast, probably shoot up in women when they're upset and in men when they're doing...
...Street, Plympton Street, and has been spotted as far afield as Mather, you’re not alone. That thing is huge and fucking scary. Gossip Guy’s fears that it would attack and devour a pre-frosh were thankfully unfounded, though despite expensive hypnotherapy, his recurring stress dream in which the possum crushes the Lowell belltower remains...
What makes Mozilla so special is the highly unorthodox process that produced it. As they worked, Mozilla's engineers released rough drafts onto the Internet, so hackers everywhere could try them out, suggest ideas, fix bugs and generally stress-test the bejeezus out of Mozilla. This is a technique called "open source"; big corporations rarely use it because it involves giving other people free access to the innards--or source code--of your software. But given AOL's chilly relationship with Microsoft, that seemed a small price to pay for an alternative to Internet Explorer...
...good is Mozilla? I tried a prerelease version (available free at www.mozilla.org) and I'm sold. It's fast and impressively stable (i.e., unlike Netscape 6, it doesn't crash every time you look at it funny), but what makes it truly superior is the clever, stress-saving bells and whistles that come from millions of geek hours of testing. For example: every morning I scroll through News.com open-ing articles in new browser windows as I go, for later perusal. These windows tend to clutter up my desktop and get in my face. But Mozilla's "tabbed-browsing" feature...
...were there for all the stress our freshman year of trying to figure out what happened,” she says. “But we didn’t actually participate in being part of Radcliffe...