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Bencowitz said she believes that the burglar turned off her alarm clock Friday morning, after stealing her wallet and her roommates' backpacks...
...time of Widener's construction, book preservation theory was about as watertight as the ship that sank old Harry. Even the most knowledgeable authorities thought that sunlight and fresh air kept old tomes looking new--hence the light courts. But half a century later, enlightened book preservationists sounded the alarm. Since little could be done under Mrs. Widener's guidelines, the family agreed to waive the ban on construction in the 1960s, and minor changes were made...
...Europeans were in charge of standard measurements for alarm clocks, an hour would probably last 100 minutes...
Fortunately, it was a false alarm--that night's beef dinner had apparently gotten...
...SNOOZE ALARM Talk about a drunken stupor. Doctors say not getting enough sleep may dull your senses as much as drinking does. Folks with sleep apnea--a common disorder in which sufferers momentarily awaken throughout the night because breathing stops--did worse on 3 out of 7 tests of reaction time than those whose blood-alcohol level would make them too drunk to drive in 15 states. Could ordinary insomniacs run into the same problems? Probably, doctors...