Word: stress
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...mood will falter a little as you drive onto campus. "Let's go in and find your dorm assignment first," you'll suggest. "I know it!" she'll snap back. She's under great stress, so don't let this get to you. She wants to appear as if she has everything under control, even though she is actually feeling completely lost...
...operations are cheap: $60 per patient, all inclusive. But the main draw is the method used: in 1998, Guangzhou Second City People's Hospital began using general anesthesia for every operation, which is used in the rest of China solely for late-term abortions or patients under extreme stress. But here, thanks to the drugs, all patients are unconscious during the 10-minute operation. "We've performed over 7,000 'no-pain' abortions since we began the service midway through 1998," one long-haired nurse at Guangzhou's Second City People's Hospital boasts. "Now all the hospitals...
...chemical cousin heroin is readily available. Local Lao addicts seldom try to stop?and when they are occasionally picked up by the Vang Viang police, they are usually released from the corrugated-steel jail after a few hours because the cops can't stand listening to their cries. Guidebooks stress that narco-tourists are directly supporting local addicts and contributing to social and cultural problems. But that won't discourage a curious American or Canadian or Japanese...
However, others stress his association with the regulation-slashing efforts of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and claim that he is beholden to big business...
...WEDDED STRESS Marital strife can harm your health, and for years it was thought that men suffered more ill effects because of their heightened physiological response during conflict. Not so, according to recent studies cited by psychologist Scott Stanley, co-author of the newly revised book Fighting for Your Marriage. Women seem to bear the brunt of it, says Stanley, because they tend to feel more responsible for the outcome of the marriage and yet cannot single-handedly effect change...