Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...studied 70 subjects, half of them men, half women. Witvliet finds "robust" physiological differences between nonforgiving and forgiving states. Subjects' cardiovascular systems inevitably labor when they remember the person who hurt them. But stress is "significantly greater" when they consider revenge rather than forgiveness. Witvliet suggests that we may be drawn to hold grudges "because that makes us feel like we are more in control and we are less sad." But interviews with her subjects indicate that they felt in even greater control when they tried to empathize with their offenders and enjoyed the greatest sense of power, well-being...
Adams HouseAdams opens doors, greets first-years with cigars and roses--and no gong. These kids won the housing lottery. Saharan Nights We enjoyed the baklava, but since when has Greece been in the Sahara? What's next--baguettes on Greek night? Spring Break Long overdue respite from stress and exhaustion. Too bad everyone else in the world has two weeks. Pre-Spring Break Sections A no-win situation; skip class, or go and endure an hour of the sounds of silence. MTV Spring Break Thanks for allowing us to live vicariously through state school students. The editorial board
...high stress levels and the enormous costs of some test-prep programs have caused some students to question whether the MCAT is too important a factor in medical school admissions, especially because expensive preparation courses promise higher scores...
...reminded the audience of 100 that Menchu wrote, "I'd like to stress that it's not only my life, it's also the testimony of my people...
Market leader CNN (owned by TIME parent Time Warner) has its own problems. Its prime-time audience is the only one of the three to decline from a year ago. Yet CNN chief Rick Kaplan says the network will continue to stress the breadth of its coverage. "I don't want to put the network in a situation where if there's no news, we pick out the most tabloid story and talk about that for a whole day," he says. "Our core news viewer wants...