Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...equine. She has said she is not a workhorse, not a racehorse, but a show horse. She brings up a fictional character who looked "impossibly sad, like a horse's eyes." It is a quote, she says, from Nabokov, and she pronounces the novelist's name correctly, with the stress on the second syllable, exactly as exacting old Vladimir used to instruct his readers. He might have been able to appreciate this latest of pop goddesses, this star of the Lilith Fair. After all, it was a Nabokov character who said that while he was capable of loving...
...main threats to the security of nations in Central and Eastern Europe are economic: the pain and stress of transforming their economies and politics after communism. And yet the first major initiative from the West is membership in a military alliance. What they really need is membership in the European Union. That is not happening because the Europeans think offering NATO membership is easier and cheaper for them. After the nonprogress at last month's E.U. summit in Amsterdam, it is clear that its expansion will be smaller and slower than the Americans, and the new applicants, had hoped...
...work, they try another until they find a remedy. Now scientists at Ohio University are trying to cut through some of that guesswork by fashioning a simple 15-min. screening test that will tell doctors where the pain occurs, how debilitating it is and what other factors (such as stress) may be contributing to it. The hope is that physicians will be able to determine in advance whether their patients will respond better to drugs or to, say, stress-management therapy--and get the treatment right the first time...
GIVE ME A SMILE Depressed mothers seem to give birth to babies with similar symptoms--elevated levels of stress hormones, few facial expressions and trouble sleeping. Their brain waves too mimic those of their depressed moms...
McDonald's serves jillions of Happy Meals each year, but not many are being shared around the company's pleasant headquarters in a Chicago suburb these days. "There's no question we've been under more stress than we're used to," says McDonald's USA chairman Jack Greenberg, who runs the company's 12,100 domestic restaurants...