Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Doris worries about everyone. She worries about her mother, 93 and suffering from Alzheimer's in a nursing home, whom she now has less time to visit; she worries about the stress in her children's lives. "I worry that Lori works so much. But I know she can't help it." What does Ed worry about? "I worry about Doris...
Yale junior Elizabeth E. Gerard objected to the magazine's portrayal of students there as hiding their stress...
...definitely stressful, and I don't agree we hide it," she said. "We're proud of our stress level...
Management planners suggest that the bedroom should not be a place for work, that all signs of work should be placed in the study or the library so as to avoid sleeplessness and stress. But for most of us, our bedrooms are our only rooms, not counting the windowless common rooms littered with banana peels and CD jewel boxes. We have no place reserved for quiet and rest. The Harvard houses contain no saunas, no shrines for quiet contemplation. We are bereft of calming influence...
TThis afternoon, however, I will surmount those anxieties. As I step onto the Red Line T car, a layer of stress will lift off my shoulders and be subsumed by the whine of the tracks. Once I arrive in the Delta Shuttle terminal, I will pick up a magazine and watch CNN Airport News until Harvard seems positively foreign. And once I land at National Airport in Washington, D.C., I will vow not to let paltry academic concerns cast a shadow over my weekend. It will take effort, but it is doable and worth doing. Harvard is not contained...