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...miles from Bafing Diarra's farm. Ba Dienta, head of the school, estimates that enrollment varies as much as 25%, depending on the annual cotton price and the size of the harvest. When farmers make no money from cotton, Dienta says, his students concentrate poorly and fall asleep in class because they're hungry. "Everything is done on cotton money--marriage, debt, babies," he says. "When the price is low, it's a catastrophe...
...question marks surrounding it. Despite the fact that Penn garnered all 16 first-place votes, it is not immune to the uncertainty bug. The team that earns the Ivy title and the NCAA bid this year will not be the one that merely avoided injuries and kept from falling asleep on a grueling back-to-back Ivy weekend. Rather, it will be the one that recognized its holes and found the pieces to fill them...
...rally faux pas: Falling asleep standing...
...first hint of morning light was creeping across the Indian Ocean as the 10,000-ton Miami-based cruise ship Seabourn Spirit motored south along the Somali coast just over a week ago. Most of the 312 people aboard--151 passengers and 161 crew members--were asleep; the boat was expected in Mombasa, Kenya, that afternoon. Then, out of the gloom, came a burst of gunfire. Passengers later said they saw inflatable rubber boats speeding toward the Spirit, each carrying four or five men dressed in black and armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. As the pirates drew...
...songs from the movie, like Louis Armstrong's classy A Kiss to Build a Dream On. This shameless Sleepless sequel, featuring selections like Al Jolson's Sonny Boy, includes a disclaimer: ''None of the recordings in this collection appear in the motion picture Sleepless in Seattle.'' Is the audience asleep...