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Kidd and Gross, by contrast, repeatedly stress how important it is to them to have an open dialogue with students...
...Instead of letting ailments like Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Gulf War Syndrome slowly bubble up at Department of Veterans' Affairs hospitals, the Army is screening soldiers before and after they serve in combat, and then a follow-up returning screening several months after they come home. They are finding that more than one in four-28 percent-are limping home with psychological or physical woes, ranging from unhealed war wounds to thoughts of suicide. Those roughly 150,000 vets eclipse the official war tally of 1,971 killed and 15,220 wounded through Tuesday...
...Newspoll published last week, 50% of respondents said Labor was better than the government at handling industrial relations; only 26% thought the government was better. To be sure, a preemptive ad campaign by unions tapped into concerns about job "casualization," long hours and weekend work and the resulting stress on families, and unscrupulous employers. Peter Jensen, the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, is one of several church leaders who worry that the proposed reforms could lead to a nation of robots. Further, Australian workers, no matter how well they get on with their employers, don't completely trust them; they...
...hair salon’s cramped quarters, a sign on the mirror reads: “Ask / About Our / STRESS RELIEVING / One Hour / SHIATSU and SWEDISH / Massage...
...someone else’s orange.” Less tactful, her definition of the verbal equivalent is to “suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.” But risking perilousness, Carson writes that “Brittle failure occurs / of course / when stress on a material exceeds its / tensile force...