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    and

    "stress."  Far from it.  The Japanese spend a staggering 66% less on medical

    care per unit of population than we do.  Yet they consistently outlive us!145

    Like the Japanese, we have to restore  our sense that stimulation can be

    exhilarating.  We have to realize that challenge is not our enemy, it is our

    salvation, and that the dangers we have interpreted as stress come from

    something far different than what we've imagined.  They do not spring from

    ambition or the drive of the dedicated.  They come from isolation, separation

    from the social beast, removal from the superorganismic unit that gives our

    life its meaning.  Our pains do not proceed from overactivity, but from the

    loss of control, from the feeling that we are allowing ourselves to be shuffled

    from the pecking order's peak.  And the solution to our problem is not a

    good vacation.  Our hope and our pleasure lie in rolling up our sleeves and

    going to work.

      the U.S. in 1993, the "salary man's" dedication seldom maims him with

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