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...UCLA and author of The Tending Instinct: Women, Men and the Biology of Relationships (Times Books). She says having a close friend can be a life-enhancing experience in more ways than you might expect. "There's good evidence that friendship is an important tool for down-regulating stress," she says. "It restores psychological well-being and has definite health-protective benefits. It also prolongs life...
...common in such situations, according to Lauren Solotar, chief psychologist at the May Institute, a counseling service in Norwood, Mass. "Incorporating everyone's demands takes time and energy when children live outside the home," Solotar says. "Figuring out how each person fits into the new blended family causes significant stress...
According to Murray, there were problems with her family and her apartment in New York City and, to add to this stress, she had been offered a number of book and movie deals before even setting foot in Cambridge...
With such a performance already in the books, the pressure will be on Whitton this season to equal or better last year’s effort. And the primary source of that added stress may just be her internal monologue...
...biggest academic miseries facing undergraduates is the prospect of ending up in a section led by a poorly-qualified or unprepared teaching fellow (TF) hired at the last minute. Simultaneously, eleventh-hour TFs hiring causes a great deal of stress for graduate students seeking employment. Both predicaments will be ameliorated by a new policy—announced by Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Peter T. Ellison on Tuesday—that will require faculty to hire their TFs in May for the fall and spring semesters of the following year...