> This step for reducing stress was in the service of good ventilation, and 
> it
> was just one thing in a long list, a few of the highlights of which I
> offered to the group...

Have you read the BEE-L archives at all?  They go back almost two decades.
http://listserv.albany.edu:8080/archives/bee-l.html

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