Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Year's. You've barely put away the confetti and the champagne before you're packing up and heading back to school, a measly two weeks after leaving Harvard. Were we to have finals before winter break, we could have three weeks--at a minimum--of uninterrupted and stress-free vacation, enough days to unwind from finals, spend the requisite time with family and--if you have the incentive and the cash--go away somewhere and still return to school refreshed. The way our schedule exists, it is difficult to really relax during vacation and highly unlikely that students return...
This is a volatile combination, one reminiscent of a Harvard January. The stress of exams combined with heroic feats of sleep deprivation drives some people over the edge. Recent suicides at Harvard, admittedly extreme, highlight the fact that the University has a problem on its hands. Students feel excessive pressure, and all too often no voice of reason is there to comfort them. In this light, the University's decision to open Cabot Library 24 hours a day during reading period and exams is downright irresponsible. Though normally I am happy to see administrators respond to students' desires...
There is little correlation between ill soldiers and where they served during the war. While certain units have more ailing members than others, some investigators see that as evidence of the stress shared by members of those units--combat, being away from home and family, and poor living conditions. The main concentration seems to be among reservists, who account for nearly half of those reporting the problem but made up only 17% of the troops serving there. The Pentagon attributes this discrepancy to the reluctance of active-duty soldiers to complain for fear of losing their jobs in a shrinking...
...state's expert witness, psychiatrist Dr. Russ Voltin, who testified that on the basis of inconsistencies in her story he believed Kay was "malingering," has changed his position. He testified at a recent sentencing hearing that after further interviews with Kay he believes she suffers from post-traumatic-stress disorder, resulting from the years of abuse by her deceased husband. "I don't think this woman poses a threat," Dr. Voltin says. "[She] felt backed against the wall." It is too late to sway the court, however: in October Kay gave up her right to further appeal in return...
...strange nation. We Americans live in a state of constant optimism that somehow we are going to change human nature. We think we can put men and women together in a high-stress, testosterone-charged, macho environment and expect them to stay away from one another. That's nonsense. We're not going to change human behavior. DON YARROLL Glen Ellyn, Illinois...