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...increasingly confusing to her, and increasingly irritating to us - or maybe I should say, "to me" since I am implacably resistant to the purely fantastic in movies, not excluding The Lord of the Rings. Needless to say the relationship, between Stephane and Stephanie remains, whether he's awake or asleep, incurably chaste...
This time last year, I was falling asleep to the sound of late chattering in the Yard, coming from scattered puddles of freshmen evidently not as tired as I was. Obsessively, I reproached myself for not being there, eagerly collecting more, newer acquaintances. The crucial piece of advice for such a tumultuous time, one I cannot take credit for, is to engrave into your skull, and schedule, the impossibility of attending every presentation, speech, tour, and event...
...control and sedation are often mixed and matched according to patient preference. Says Dr. Ronald Pearl, chairman of the department of anesthesia at Stanford: "It's not uncommon when we do a spinal anesthetic, say for knee surgery, to ask the patients whether they want to be awake or asleep for it." Those who choose sleep do so not because they want to avoid the pain--they won't be feeling it in either case--but because they just don't want to know they're under the knife...
...were asleep and we woke up to bombs falling on us," says Noor Hashem, 13, a niece of Abbas Hashem, speaking from a bed in the government-run hospital in Tyre, six miles northwest of Qana. Noor, who wears a brown headscarf, says she had been sleeping beside her older sister Zeinab and a cousin. They fled the shattered building and ran to her aunt's house nearby where they waited six hours before the rescue services could reach them. Her mother went to look for her three brothers - Mahdi, 7, Jaafar, 12, and Abbas, nine months - and Noor says...
Students may now want to think twice about falling asleep in class, because someone could be watching them snooze from a computer across the country or around the globe. Twenty-five online-only versions of Harvard College courses, including several from the Core curriculum, will be offered to Harvard Extension School students during the 2006-2007 academic year. Professors of the College courses also head the Extension School classes. In the fall, College course lectures available to Extension School students will include Historical Study B-54, “World War and Society in the Twentieth Century: World War II?...