DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Corporate executives are struggling to find paths to growth as the euro zone crisis stokes fears of a return to recession and developing economies lose momentum. Leaders of top companies meeting in Davos this week are braced for further shocks in 2012 and, at the personal level, the strains are growing as the backlash over top pay increases at a time of rising ...

January 16 is the most depressing day of the year according to psychologist Cliff Arnal from University’s Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning, and an expert on seasonal affective disorders.

It's the end of another grading period, and for many high-schoolers and their parents, it is a time marked by lots of angst. As parents, we want what's best for our kids, and for many of us, that means getting good grades and getting into college. This is where the trouble starts. The stakes are SO high for kids now -- much more so than when I was in school. Grades matter; they play a large role ...

When life delivers stress, how we cope is key to health

Everyone has stress, it's about how you deal with it.

Some restaurants try to accommodate smartphone addicts and even join in. Others try to discourage the diner distraction. Ding. Bzzzt. Bap. Beep. That's the sound of conversation in restaurants these days. Where cellphones once posed a nuisance as people chatted loudly into them during meals, they now present a whole new set of etiquette issues as entire tables disappear into the Internet via ...

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WASHINGTON -- A day after the District of Columbia's delegate to Congress expressed acute displeasure with the administration of Mayor Vincent Gray during a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the Occupy DC encampment in McPherson Square, the mayor reiterated his belief that D.C.'s two Occupy camps should be combined.

MONDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Shedding some light on why stress might be bad for you, a new study finds that parts of your immune system ramp up when you get into personal conflicts with others.

Break has been over for a week now and I could not be happier. It's not as if I don't enjoy spending time with my family, in fact going home helps me realize how much I miss them. However, in general, breaks from the University of Dayton tend to be a lot more stressful than they should be for me. For one, I hate driving that four-hour trek from Dayton to Cleveland. I will admit it: I am an angry ...