Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...memory. Since the trial began in January, six jurors have been dismissed for reasons ranging from medical issues to misconduct, which leaves only 12 active jurors and six alternates. And with months of numbingly exhaustive testimony still to come, Ito is in danger of losing even more jurors to stress, boredom, personality conflicts or unforeseen dilemmas. Last week, juror No. 453, a flight attendant, asked Ito to let her go because she just "can't take it anymore...
...University of Minnesota. "Some judges would maintain a greater distance. I think it's clear that they don't hold him in reverence, as most jurors do with the judges they encounter.'' But Thomas Hafemeister of the National Center for State Courts, who studies jury stress, believes Ito has been doing the right thing to avoid a total meltdown. "He's trying to stay in touch with the jurors,'' Hafemeister says. "If you're formal, distant and removed, that increases the stress levels. It's almost inevitable that you would have trouble with the jury here, with the length...
...there aren't severe emotional consequences. After the initial shock has worn off, children who have survived a shooting, explosion or natural disaster tend to be generally fearful, have trouble sleeping and have difficulty concentrating and carrying on their normal activities. Those who are especially sensitive to stress may suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, in which the mind keeps replaying the trauma with terrifying realism. Others will deny the experience entirely, treating the disaster as a story, often as something that happened to someone else. Many become edgy and almost hyperactive...
Well, a group of courageous premeds is willing to bet that pre-meds can transcend their stress-filled, petty and pedantic existences. Earlier this spring, 10 undergraduates started the Hippocratic Society, a pre-med ethics society...
...Ansgar was a sort of a fragile person, he wasoverwhelmed by a lot of things and the work he hadto, and there were some family problems,"Travassos said. "He had a lot of stress, had todeal with a lot of different things, it reallytook a toll...