Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action is episodic, and most characters are fleeting, placing more stress on Dunne's performance than his lightweight, ingratiating style can bear. The first act is expository and lamely comic, acutely lacking the menace and madness that make the second act crackle. Sometimes the play is a chilling rumination on '80s greed. Sometimes it's merely upper Miami Vice. In either vein, it is supremely cynical. Korder asserts with equal force that run-amuck individualism is appalling and that it is the one sure path to triumph...
Troubled by the destructive nature of theracism, sexism, and homophobia prevalent in modernsociety, Clark tries to "stress love and nothate--that everybody, when they're cut, bleedsred." Thus Clark never attacks any particulargroups in society but instead focuses on themesand experiences common to everyone...
Using a relatively new drug, two Harvard physicians recently demonstrated that deep anesthesia for infants undergoing major surgery is safe, and lessens hormonal and metabolic responses to cardiac surgery stress...
Earlier drugs inducing deep anaesthesia often caused problems with the infants' cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Anand and Hickey showed sufentanil to generate lower levels of stress-associated hormones and to produce stronger metabolic responses...
...effects all too clearly: the elderly forced out of their homes and into retirement centers, people so paranoid that every common illness was assumed to be dioxin poisoning, neighbors quarreling and even threatening to kill one another. "This chemical uprooted 801 families," she says. "The frustration, the divorces, the stress, the deaths can all be blamed on this chemical...