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...director of research at the Scripps Clinic Sleep Center in La Jolla, Calif., has looked at the most important question of all. In 2002, he compared death rates among more than 1 million American adults who, as part of a study on cancer prevention, reported their average nightly amount of sleep. To many, his results were surprising, but they've since been corroborated by similar studies in Europe and East Asia. Kripke explains...
Morbidity [or sickness] is also "U-shaped" in the sense that both very short sleep and very long sleep are associated with many illnesses-with depression, with obesity-and therefore with heart disease-and so forth. But the [ideal amount of sleep] for different health measures isn't all in the same place. Most of the low points are at 7 or 8 hr., but there are some at 6 hr. and even at 9 hr. I think diabetes is lowest in 7-hr. sleepers [for example]. But these measures aren't as clear as the mortality data...
...members of the European Union - have for years propped up their agricultural industries with generous subsidies and trade barriers; this has skewed the real price of food on international markets and stunted farming in poorer countries. With food relatively abundant, Western countries over time also reduced the amount of assistance going to poor countries to improve farming practices and build agricultural infrastructure such as irrigation systems and dams. Global assistance for agricultural development plummeted from about 18.7% of total foreign assistance in 1979 to 5.2% in 2006, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The West last...
...Apparently I was not alone. The Senior Class Committee sent each senior a long list of “things to do before you graduate.” I diligently checked off the things I had done—an unsatisfyingly small number of activities due to the amount of time I had spent working as editorial page editor on The Crimson—and left the bright red piece of paper on top of the stack of papers on my desk. It would be the thing I saw every morning as I went to class and every evening...
...this and explained to them what her goals were and tried to reassure them that what we’re trying to do is lift all boats not steal people one from the other,” Faust said. “I think change brings a certain amount of uneasiness and people are waiting to see how this will work...