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Viewers may find the spectacle something of a rerun of the overtly inclusionary 2000 convention; campaign officials are again asking state delegations to stress diversity. Projecting such an image is crucial after weeks of strident exchanges between the parties, culminating in Vice President Cheney's outburst at Democratic Senator Pat Leahy last week. Cheney will get a prime-time spot too, of course, but insiders say he's unlikely to join in the gentler approach. "Cheney soften?" says a Bush official. "Don't bet on it." --By John F. Dickerson
...There's a large body of medical literature showing that married people tend to be healthier and live longer than singles. But newer research adds an important caveat: the quality of the marriage matters. Marital stress, logically enough, is not good for your health. In a study reviewed in the Harvard Men's Health Watch in May, 72 married couples were ranked on a scale of marital stress and tracked for three years. Those with high levels of stress were more likely to have an unhealthy thickening of the heart's main pumping chamber. (Couples in unhappy marriages, however, were...
...Someday marital stress may be as important an indicator of health as cholesterol, weight or blood pressure. But like those other health indicators, a marriage needs constant work if you are going to enjoy the well-being benefits?or so I'm told. What do I know? I'm just getting started...
...partner. I can't hear him either; stress can impair hearing as well. I am only a few feet from horrified people yelling their lungs out, but it is as if I were deaf. I also feel that my eyes are bulging with the same terror I see in the passengers' faces...
...expel heat more efficiently. When you exercise, do so in the cooler times of the day, at a moderate pace and for less time than usual. And, suggests Julie Main, general manager of the Santa Barbara Athletic Club in California, use a heart-rate monitor to keep at safe stress levels...