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Overworked and stressed out? Look on the bright side. Some stress is good for you.

“You always think about stress as a really bad thing, but it’s not,” says Daniela Kaufer, associate professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley. “Some amounts of stress are good to push you just to the level of optimal alertness, behavioral, and cognitive performance.”

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A nurse refuses to help an ailing alcoholic who is upset to find a hospital detox unit closed. A hospital clerk brushes off a deceased woman’s grieving family as they try to pay her bills and claim her belongings. A charge nurse keeps the mother of gunshot victim from seeing her son, saying the emergency room is “too busy.”

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(UC Berkeley: Berkeley, CA) -- On Sunday, July 17, the moon acquired two new companions in less than a month. That’s when the second and third of two probes built by the University of California, Berkeley, and part of NASA’s five-satellite Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS) mission will drop into a permanent lunar orbit after a meandering, two-year journey from its original orbit around Earth.

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