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Even worse, the effects are long term. Accumulation of sleep debt has been proven to cause both psychological and physical health problems in the future. The absurd quantities of caffeine that we use to jolt ourselves awake also cannot be good...

Author: By Jenny Tsai, | Title: To Sleep, Or Not to Sleep | 11/9/2004 | See Source »

While “Crime Time” may seem more modest than other CCTV programming, Pasquarello says that even his show has its more absurd moments...

Author: By Robin M. Peguero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lights, Camera, Crime | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...spoke out on video games last month at the EA Game Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. "I think the real indicator," he said, "will be when somebody confesses that they cried at Level 17." Spielberg was talking about video games and art, and the increasingly less absurd question of are-they-or-aren't-they. The mere fact that U.S.C. has a Game Innovation Lab is probably an indicator that something is afoot, but I'm here to accept Spielberg's challenge and come clean. A video game made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of the Virtual | 11/8/2004 | See Source »

...Well, absurd if Kentucky didn’t exist...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'BLO IT RIGHT BY 'EM: Sports Benefit From Nov. Politics | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...anything particularly relevant, using his voice as just another instrument in the fray. In tone he alternates here between a fairly lucid baritone and a whining falsetto, a trend that holds up throughout the disc. This tendency toward wild fluctuations gives an effect of purposely pathetic overextension (see the absurd choir-boy-to-demon shift in “Among Dreams”), as if he’s playing every part in a soap opera. He’s shooting for the platonic ideals of theme songs and television commercials, and hitting upon something far darker. In fact darkness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

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