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...anxious or depressed. Even most people are as clueless about why they have certain feelings as they are about how their lungs work. But fear is the one aspect of anxiety that's easy to recognize. Rats freeze in place. Humans break out in a cold sweat. Heartbeats race, and blood pressure rises. That gives scientists something they can control and measure. "You can bring on a sensory stimulus that makes an animal--or human--fearful and study its effects," says Dr. Wayne Drevets of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). "Then you can take the stimulus away...
RACING HEARTBEAT The body's sympathetic nervous system, responsible for heart rate and breathing, shifts into overdrive. The heart beats faster, blood pressure rises and the lungs hyperventilate. Sweat increases, and even the nerve endings on the skin tingle into action, creating goose bumps...
...Gates, still in competition with his old friend, gibes that Ballmer needed to sweat out the grades that he could achieve through genius alone...
...veteran video gamer knows, it's not the bad guys that get you; it's the sweat. For anyone who has ever lost crucial points due to a too slippery controller, a company called Nyko has come up with what it thinks is the perfect solution: air-conditioning. The AirFlo plugs into the console and keeps palms nicely ventilated while you play. It will be available for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube in July for $50. That's twice the price of A/C-free controllers, but not any more than most video games. Cool. --By Chris Taylor/ Los Angeles
...days after the attacks, each worker came to Ground Zero carrying something: A fear, an aching void, an ineffable rage. Firefighters turned up in memory of fallen colleagues. Police officers arrived clutching photographs of their dead. Fathers and brothers and sisters came for the backbreaking work, hoping perhaps to sweat out some of their tears...