Word: stress
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...Silliness aside, however, Let's Go, as a business operation, requires an end-product, and the pressure to produce yields high stress levels in the office. As deadlines approach, this means 15 hour days. "The last two weeks I was averaging three hours of sleep a day. It was misery," Weiss recalls. The regular 40 hour weekly total grows to more than twice that, says one editor. Many of the editors find themselves turning into nocturnal creatures. "By the end of it, you roll into work in the mid afternoon and stay into the small of the morning," Dawid says...
...Deadlines transform summer life into an extra exam period, staffers complain. The stress can be overwhelming and one editor says the stress has absolutely ruled out a return to the Let's Go office...
...fact is, I don't know where my career goes from here. But at least I don't spend my free time stressing over it. Unlike many people at Harvard, Folk and Myth concentrators don't stress over issues of potential success. We take things in stride. We know how to enjoy what we study--which is something a lot of other people at this school should learn. Which leads me to discuss an issue of great importance: the Harvard preoccupation with That Which is Serious and Profitable...
...talk about more current issues, like birth control, stress, female body image issues and eating disorders," she says...
...nonobese kids show no difference in self-esteem. But by 13 and 14, overweight youths tend to exhibit lower self-worth, especially white and Hispanic girls. Such youngsters are more likely to drink and smoke too. Experts urge parents to instill good eating habits in kids early and to stress that people don't normally look like models...