Coping with post-tsunami stress through meditation
MODERN living has not only brought various means of comfort but also
ever-increasing demands which cause stress. According to recent findings
of the World Health Organization (WHO), the UN's health agency "mental
and neurological disorders ranging from depression to Alzheimer's to
epilepsy currently strike 400 million people globally and are set to
surge in the next two decades.
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Rice researchers reaping a harvest of constraints
REGRETFULLY, researchers continue to remain in the backwoods and the
shoddy treatment meted out to them needs arresting. This writer's first
hand experience at the Rice Research and Development Institute in
Bathalagoda, Sri Lanka's prime research station pertaining to this
country's staple food, revealed the trying conditions under which these
researchers work, from the institutional head down to the clerical
staff.
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