Word: stressful
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...Parents may no longer chalk up a bad case of the "TERRIBLE TWOS" to a kid's inherent temperament. Researchers now say the fault may lie with the adults. Parents with high levels of anxiety, hostility and work stress are more likely to produce tear-your-hair-out two-year-olds...
...worked with Russian political parties in 1994 and '95, and I want to stress that Russians ran the '96 campaign and Russians won the election. By now, Russian political activists have sufficient experience in using Western campaign technology, including formulating a main message and using focus groups for testing political ads. Your article made it appear that the election team consisted of four Americans, candidate Yeltsin and his daughter. A more accurate picture would include roughly 1,000 activists from different political parties who pulled together to make sure the communists did not take back all the advances that Russia...
...world." Now Lenzi has a chance to top the field again. China's Xiong Ni stands in first place, Dmitry Sautin of Russia, the pre-Olympic favorite, is in third and American Scott Donie is in fourth. Lenzi retired after the 1993 season, suffering from post-Olympic gold stress. He fell into debt and briefly considered selling his gold medal to pay for flight school. He resumed his career in April 1995 and now has a chance to add a second gold medal. "My whole comeback year, prelims have been killing me every single time," Lenzi said, "but the final...
What does this global trend mean for America's education system? Although I am not an educator, my personal experience learning foreign languages (I've studied French and Japanese) tells me that our educational system needs to stress not simply learning a foreign language but also mastery of that language: fluency, ideally, should be the goal. I believe students should be encouraged to become fluent in another language to travel to the country where that language is the official one and live there for eight weeks or longer, completely immersed in foreign food, newspapers and socialization with locals...
...doesn't give us the means to take care of them. We have seven minutes between each period. We're overwhelmed, overwhelmed by family problems that used to get taken care of at home. We're trained, but we're not doctors. We're at a loss." Suicide experts stress that families must be unafraid to seek professional help, and that teachers must take all signs of depression seriously...