Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Everyday stress causes men -- but not women -- to produce possibly harmful levels of adrenaline in their bodies, possibly explaining why men have higher rates of heart disease, Oxford University researchers said today. The British team followed 104 men and women for three days, asking them about stress and measuring their adrenaline levels. The result: in the same stressful situations, adrenaline levels rose only for men. The researchers say the findings suggest that either women "cope differently," or that female sex hormones buffer them from adrenaline's effects...
...Hanna family lives in Quiercy, which means Margaret has to send Robble off on the Red Line each day for school. She says the kids' commitment to the group makes even the stress of watching her son take the T to school worthwhile...
...Moreover, total randomization would not affect the selection of rooming groups, perhaps the most important facet of the housing experience. Indeed, it would open up options, since students who before had split apart because of housing preferences would now be free to stay together. Total randomization would also relieve stress from freshmen, who are forced to choose a House at the same time they are being asked to decide on a concentration...
...MASH was to war movies, Nashville to country music, A Wedding to the middle-class family, H.E.A.L.T.H. to the organic-food business and The Player to Hollywood, so is Ready to Wear to fashion: a comic panorama of people pretending to get along under stress, creating a bogus community, playing games of power and privilege, establishing who's boss. The tone of an Altman film -- the desperate milling, the sense of isolation within a crowd, the urgency to no clear end -- is the reflection of life on any movie set and, indeed, in the working lives of most people. When...
Other students, however, feel the current academic calendar adds too much pressure to what should be a stress-free season...