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...prevented from throwing off by an inability to stay healthy or display the inside dominance his physical size and skill-set demanded. Continued difficulty adding weight has likely led to some of Cusworth’s injury history—he completely missed his sophomore campaign with a stress fracture in his foot and sat out parts of the last two seasons due to various setbacks, including a broken hand. And his weight trouble was also a factor in his inability to fully capitalize upon height and interior presence to dominate smaller Ivy League big men in the paint.Cusworth worked...
...parents feel these parties are stress-inducing. Beth Fisher didn't mind renting out a fire truck to give the guests rides around a Los Angeles neighborhood for her fireman-loving son's third birthday. "It wasn't expensive, and I have great memories of the event," she says...
...down with my friends and have some meaningful conversations that weren’t predetermined by a syllabus,” Stebbins wrote in an e-mail. “It was a breath of fresh air, to be able to enjoy the company afforded here without the standard stress.” But students without January exams do not necessarily get off scot-free. Lengthy term papers are often the price of having no finals, as Geoff S. Johnston ’07 learned. Johnston said that despite having no final exams, his five papers?...
...student witnessing a drastic change in eating habits. According to Christopher Duggan, an associate professor in the Harvard School of Public Health’s (HSPH) department of nutrition, the pressing specter of exams has effects on the body that go beyond sweaty palms. “The psychological stress of finals can result in significant alterations in eating, sleeping, and exercise patterns, which closely mimic what are thought of as more ‘physiologic’ stress patterns, such as starvation, illness, or infectious diseases,” Duggan wrote in an e-mail. Such stress patterns, according...
...were involved in aggression and the fear response. Analyzing each gene individually, even with high-throughput methods, would have taken months. He will next look at this gene in human populations to determine whether variants in the gene are linked to emotion-related disorders like anxiety and post-traumatic stress...