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...MMPI. The California Psychological Inventory, a popular "screen-in" test, can help determine the right person for the job by attempting to predict how someone will behave. The Myers-Briggs is frequently used by employers on existing employees to measure leadership and teamwork skills. Other tests gauge dependability, stress management and motivation...
...operation, and the doctor said, "I'm sorry, but I can't let you go back. It's too much stress." I said, "I totally understand. So how much stress do you think it'll be for me to be sitting at home while, say, another director finishes my film?" We had a nurse...
...Chairman Rahm Emanuel, the Illinois representative who is thought to have personally recruited Duckworth-were exploiting a veteran wracked with emotional and physical scars. Duckworth dismisses such talk, as well as the notion that the race is about national issues like the war. "I've been under much more stress when people's lives are on the line," she said. "This I can handle...
...come in for less than $30 a head. PIER: You want fresh? You got it. Fish at this Rose Bay restaurant, tel: (61-2) 9327 6561, are killed by the Japanese practice of ike jime (or driving a point through a fish's brain to kill it instantaneously, minimizing stress to the creature and so optimizing the flavor of its flesh). Staff also advise diners to eat "from the thin end" as the fish is still cooking when it arrives at your table. But chef Greg Doyle's dogmatic insistence on freshness and barely-there cooking pays divine dividends...
...Stressed? Anxious? Anorexic? Probably. This is Harvard, after all. On a jaunt through the Yard, the Harvard College undergraduate runs into a flurry of posters and signs urging him to seek help for his various mental health issues. There is a great deal of concern at Harvard over the emotional wellness of its undergraduates. Owing to the rigorous course load, intense level of competition, and high population of type-A personalities, the college is running on anti-depressants. Hordes of social advocacy groups exist at Harvard to save its undergraduates from depressing, unrewarding, teetering-on-the-edge-of-serious-mental...