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by Diane Proctor In a recent essay in The New Yorker, Jill Lepore explores the history and ubiquitous nature of “burn-out.” Citing sources as varied as The Iliad, where Achilles taunts Agamemnon “as a worthless, burnt-out coward,” to Arianna Huffington’s lament that “burned-out people are going to continue to burn up the planet,” Lepore notes that the demands…