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...Give Me That Old-Time Singing" [Jan. 28]: during my four years as a Sacred Harp singer, I discovered that beginners enjoy a warm welcome and excellent coaching. Experienced singers get a break from worrying about dynamics and tone quality. Everyone receives choral singing's documented benefits of stress reduction, lowered blood pressure and enhanced immunity. Best of all, we have an opportunity to create beautiful music that sometimes seems like a direct communication from the past to the present. Thanks for highlighting this life-affirming pursuit. Susan Matthews, Chicago
...doing here at Harvard the first place.It’s a false reduction to claim that Harvard students are simply lazy. By contrast, this is what makes the whole proposition so puzzling: Harvard students are, if anything, masochists, morbidly proud of the grisliest wounds incurred by their work. Stress doesn’t signify poor time-management skills but ambition, that most desirable of Harvard traits. The thousands of pages to be read or scores of problem sets to be completed are cudgels for asserting our masochistic superiority over our peers.Why is it, then, that we?...
...Clinton operation, on the other hand, is showing signs of financial stress - something that would have seemed inconceivable months ago. The day after the primary, the campaign announced that Clinton had loaned her campaign $5 million late last month, a move that spokesman Howard Wolfson said "illustrates Senator Clinton's commitment to this effort and to ensuring that our campaign has the resources it needs to compete and win across this nation." Clinton has relied most heavily on the party's traditional big donors and is finding fewer and fewer who have not already given the maximum legal limit...
Though the current study looked only at schizophrenia risk, Abel and her collaborators at the University of Aarhus believe that maternal stress may have a similar effect on the risk of other conditions, among them depression and other mental disorders, along with social consequences such as the risk of criminal conviction or the likelihood of marriage, "things that tend to cluster in the deprived," says Abel. "We have not shown that this is specific to schizophrenia. We've just only looked at schizophrenia...
...other big congenital risk factor is genetics, first-degree family history being the most powerful risk factor for schizophrenia. And, in fact, the new study found that the added risk associated with maternal stress disappeared in children whose mothers already had a family history of mental illness - showing once again that the interplay of environment and genes is anything but straightforward...