Word: stress
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...stress in his face. Over the past few months, Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister, has evolved from the buoyant, almost boyish persona of his recent past. The eyes have sunk into his forehead; the hair has receded; gray now frames his face, and that arched left eyebrow, once almost playful, has become etched in place. When he rose in the House of Commons last week to defend his precarious political position and urge the rambunctious deputies to go to war, he finally seemed old. A man once derided as slippery in his political pragmatism had become a weathered, unbudgeable...
...survey results reveal a startling number of undergraduates battling depression at Harvard and cite stress and lack of sleep as the leading factors affecting students’ academic performances...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 said that he thinks the demanding work ethic and the high stress level of some students may be partly to blame for Harvard students’ poor mental health...
...Danang officials would like to cash in on the mystique of China Beach, or My Khe as it is called locally, by positioning the area as an escape from modern-day stress. The locale already has some touristy infrastructure in place: a beautiful beachfront, the nearby Marble Mountains, the tony Furama Resort and a Cham historic museum. Still, gritty Danang tends to be passed over by foreigners in favor of the nearby coastal cities of Hoi An and Hu?. The latter's tourist industry is growing at twice the rate of Danang...
...after graduating from Harvard, always recognized that his alma mater needed to keep students involved outside of the classroom as well as within it. Striking a chord that many undergraduates will recognize, Lewis warned Kirby in his Feb. 24 letter, “Extracurricular activities are, if nothing else, stress-relieving; I suspect that if the time students now spend on extracurriculars were spent instead in the libraries, we would have an even more serious mental health problem than...