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...perhaps the sports tradition most similar to dousing a coach with Gatorade after a huge victory, but few coaches weigh under 125 pounds and are flung with ease into the icy depths of Lake Quinsigamond. But coxswains won’t complain about that. Their job is endlessly stressful and rife, perhaps, with misplaced blame, but a sopping wet and shivering coxswain is apt to be a happy one.Why? Only gold medal-winning coxswains are rewarded with ceremonious flops into the waters of the race course. The tradition of collegiate rowing calls for it: after winning a championship race, oarsmen...
...battle the disease. Since immigrating to the U.S. as a teenager, I have enjoyed more opportunity and freedom of choice than either my mother or grandmother. But I now see that I am paying the price for multitasking and the pursuit of the American Dream, with the accompanying stress and ceaseless consumerism. Focusing on the treatments is necessary, but I feel you should have given more emphasis to prevention in your article. Frederica Sagiani, New York City...
...health, it's one of the few forms of exercise they can enjoy and stick to. Running, weight-lifting and calisthenics are not for everyone. And while it's true that yoga alone does not improve cardiovascular health, many practitioners are trim and have increased strength, flexibility and reduced stress. It requires great strength and a little sweat to hold those asanas (poses). Rhonea Williams-Dillard, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Harvard students are less stressed than their colleagues at similar institutions, including five Ivy League schools, according to a 2006 survey assessing student wellbeing released yesterday. Harvard consistently scored well in areas such as life satisfaction and ability to cope with emotion in the survey, conducted by the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescence and Young Adults. The survey found about 6.26 percent of Harvard students reported suffering from significant academic stress, compared with a reported average of 6.5 percent at other schools. The psychological rewards students receive from academic rigor contribute to the low rates...
...recent years the "middle ground" has been an approach called Abstinence Plus, which would both stress the value of delaying sexual activity but also provide more comprehensive information than the traditional abstinence programs that now qualify for federal funding. Conservative critics charge that "abstinence plus" doesn't really promote abstinence at all; one Heritage Foundation study argued that the typical "abstinence plus" curriculum devotes six times more space to promoting contraception than promoting abstinence. But you could argue that the evidence points to the value of a combined approach, that far from being mixed, the messages belong together: experts argue...