Word: stress
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...next challenge for Spyder, besides finding access to Harvard's underground network of tunnels, will be Memorial Hall and Widener. It's an immense challenge, for sure, but for Spyder, it's just another evening of stress relief. For some, calming the nerves means reaching for a Coors Light. For Spyder, however, where every building is a mountain, this handsome first-year heads for the Rockies...
...constantly reminded that their work could never be as good as the thesis of Henry A. Kissinger '50. His was 350 pages long, written in his own blood and "interpreted" by a troupe of dancing lizards he trained himself. Could you top that? Not likely. And so we stress and complain like mad. Sometimes, to see the glum, hopeless looks across this campus, you'd think the North Face factory had burned down...
...When you first get a line of dialogue, how do you decide which words to stress? Dice? Darts...
...done with a stress meter. You read the line to a stress meter, and when the arc of the line is at its highest point, you know that is the word to emphasize...
NIGHT-SHIFT TOLL One downside of today's booming, round-the-clock economy is heightened stress on shift workers with kids. A study in the February issue of the Journal of Marriage and the Family reveals that the risk of a marital breakup can increase as much as threefold when a mom works at night and sixfold when a dad does so. But there is no increased risk for childless couples, who do not have to juggle nighttime work obligations with daytime parenting...