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Questions about the causes or sources of work stress have been the subject of considerable research, as well as public fascination, for several decades. Earlier interest in this issue focused on the question of whether some jobs are simply more inherently stressful than others. Other questions that soon emerged asked whether some individuals were more prone to stress than others. The Handbook of Work Stress focuses primarily on identifying the different sources of work stress across different contexts and individuals.
Terrorism
Terrorism
In Oklahoma City in 1995, right-wing extremists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols killed 168 people and injured hundreds more in a bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Dr. Barnett Slepian, a physician performing legal abortions, was shot and killed in 1998 in Buffalo, New York, by James Kopp, an antiabortion militant. Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) guerrillas kidnapped two brothers, French businessmen in Colombia, releasing one shortly after the abduction with a hefty ransom demand for the other. In what has been called the largest terrorist attack in history, suicide bombers commandeered four American passenger airplanes on September 11, 2001, and flew them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C., ...
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