Word: stressful
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...study received late or no prenatal care, that discrepancy alone was not great enough to account completely for the twofold gap in mortality rates. Schoendorf points to several possible reasons. Among them: the cumulative effects of a lifetime of inadequate access to health care, and the chronic stress associated with being black in America. One piece of good news in the report: black and white infants of normal birth weight enjoyed identical chances for good health...
McCartney likes to stress how ordinary he is. "One thing that can bring you bad luck is when you start to get bigheaded," he says. His M.B.E. (Member of the Order of the British Empire) medal from the Queen and most of the gold records are put away in storage. He's into organic farming and carpentry. He sent the kids off to state schools. Heather, 29, "theirs" although she is from Linda's first marriage, is a potter. Mary, a dark-haired 22-year-old beauty, works at MPL handling copyrights. Red-headed Stella, 20, studies fashion design. James...
...elected -- Bush will have charged by other golden oldies, Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan, both 69, and Dwight Eisenhower, 70. That would leave Bush second only to Ronald Reagan, who retired to California at age 77. Bush's thyroid problem, his doctor's public concerns about job stress and his televised throwing up into the lap of Japan's Prime Minister have underscored persistent questions about the President's health. There was even the wild media speculation earlier this year that Bush would cite health reasons to make a dramatic exit from his re- election bid, opening the contest...
Harvard senior Cathy Griffin likes stress. In fact, she thrives...
...results were less successful: inmates, still isolated, remained in control. In 1981 California's Contra Costa County jail was the first county jail to take down all the barriers between prisoners and officers. Exercise rooms, traditional furnishings -- even an open booking area without cells -- were added. The changes relieved stress, reduced stereotypical behavior by both inmates and officers, and vastly reduced violence and vandalism. Corrections officials began to see the concept's full potential. "It is so revolutionary," says jail architect Jay Farbstein. "After hearing the anecdotal information, you get a really strong feeling for the power of the idea...