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...daughter's funeral, according to several witnesses, Pranee looked ill and complained of tiredness. "We thought it was because of the stress of losing her daughter," says a villager. Pranee visited a clinic, but like her child, was sent home, and then returned to Bangkok. Less than two weeks later, Pranee died of bird flu, the country's 10th confirmed victim of the disease?but one with a major distinction. On Sept. 28, a joint World Health Organization (WHO) and Thai investigation announced what scientists studying the H5N1 bird-flu virus had long feared: Pranee hadn't contracted the disease...
...always stress in our program that no one is allowed to walk by themselves,” Mendoza said. “We’re not happy that this happened, but we’re prepared for things like this...
...well-heeled parents, it's easy to justify the indulgence. Sheila Allen was worried that her daughter Rebecca would face too much stress at Princeton University, where the 18year-old will be balancing academics with a spot on the ice-hockey team. So Sheila pushed for a new Pier 1 sofa and prodded her daughter into other purchases ranging from a flat-screen TV to a mini-fridge-freezer to a papasan chair. "She needs to be able to relax," says Sheila. To that end, Rebecca will also have new video-game accessories plus her roommate's karaoke machine...
...more fertile area for Latham has been his personal pitch for rebuilding a sense of community. Amid material prosperity, he says, there's social isolation, frustration, depression, work stress and broken relationships. He has advocated that government sponsor mentoring for troubled boys and provide parenting-skills classes to help build bridges between people, across generations and cultures. After the Hawke-Keating big-picture focus on the economy, Latham has zoomed in to individual, family and neighborhood needs: he's practically a miniaturist. The small-picture approach can be attractive at a time of national insecurity and unease about globalization...
Well listen up, Bright Eyes: the excitement is going to wear off. As classes proceed you will learn that the happiness of these first weeks in college will not sustain through the semester. The stress, the strain, the lack of sex—it all creates a strange cycle of behavior that starts every morning and ends late into the night. The end result is exhaustion and an inability to get out of bed. Perhaps the inscription above the Gate of Hell in Dante’s Inferno sums it up best: “Abandon all hope...