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Photo: Farmers work on a cropland in Chiping, Shandong province, on Thursday. For many, the National Day holiday from Oct 1 to Oct 7 is a golden week of travel and family gatherings, but there are those whose holiday is nothing but a normal working week.

Bilingual: Researchers found materialistic people find terrorism and war more stressful than others - and are more likely to spend compulsively to help them cope. Psychologists believe the rise of materialism around the world and its therapeutic effect on extreme stress might be a response to a fear of death caused by acts of terrorism, disease and natural disasters.