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...minute voyage away from the world is part of a weekly program at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital that uses techniques of easing stress to fight hypertension. Begun in September 1982, the program has succeeded in lowering the blood pressure of most of its participants. Besides relaxation techniques (imagine watching your breath go in and out), the regimen involves a low-salt, low-cholesterol diet emphasizing fresh food. (Cost of the program: $750 for eleven group meetings, plus tests and an evaluation session with the doctor.) Trying to meet the standards of the program, one man at the session...
Later, one woman tells how problems at work were increasing her hypertension. "The stress and tension remained in me. It was something I couldn't control." But Beth Israel's program began to help her handle her emotions. She quit smoking and became much more relaxed on the job. Best of all, she stopped taking the three kinds of medication she once needed for hypertension, and watched her blood pressure drop in just nine weeks from a high 170 over 100 to a normal 120 over 73. The stress she is under may be the same, she says...
...level of accessibility is disgraceful," charges one student, Beth Pardo, a former president of Yale's College Council (YCC). "He does not want students in power, and that's his whole approach...
...first thing is that Francesea Dent larding is still hurt. The second is Lilli Pew is still. The third is Lisa Black. Beth Mution and Alicia Clifton all still have seriously nagging injuries. And the fourth is that the Harvard women's lacrosse squad will still find...
...article attacking the Peace Corps for becoming less idealistic, (Crimson 4/16/83). Beth Schwinn offered a peculiar set of priorities for the program. Why does Schwinn criticize the Peace Corps for recruiting volunteers with practical skills? Developing countries want skilled volunteers. They don't want us merely to send over thousands of well-intentioned Crimson reporters to exude idealism. Why on Earth does Schwinn protest the increase in retirement age of volunteers, which to me is the most admirable aspect of the Peace Corps? So many retirees in this country become trapped in stultifying, deadly boring existences. The Peace Corps offers...