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...disorder that causes interruptions in breathing or shallow breaths during sleep. In one study involving patients with severe sleep apnea (five or more episodes of apnea per hour), researchers found it was "significantly related to a two-fold increased risk of a stroke," says Bernadette Boden-Albala, lead author of the current study and assistant professor of neurology at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons...
...Mohsin Hamid is the author of the novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist
...experiences, we tend to compare them with alternative experiences - experiences we've had in the past, or other experiences we might have before or after. But the fact is that none of those alternatives come into play once we're actually in the moment. That's what Daniel Gilbert, author and Harvard psychology professor, means by "attentional collapse": it's the idea that when we are actually having an engaging, encompassing experience, it acts like a black hole of imagination, sucking in all of our attention and making our preconceptions irrelevant...
...succeed his brother as full President this weekend in a National Assembly vote after Fidel officially resigned from the post today. "It wouldn't surprise me if people in Raul's faction leaked those [Avila] tapes out," says Brian Latell, a Cuba expert at the University of Miami and author of After Fidel...
...Alex de Waal, program director at New York's Social Science Research Council and author of several books on Africa, says that Bush had "exceeded expectations" on Africa. "Clinton talked the talk," said de Waal, "but Bush has actually done something. The amount of resources now dedicated to Africa are more than the Democrats ever even talked about. That's quite impressive." Kajee concurs. "Most analysts agree that there has been a far more concentrated Africa policy under Bush than under previous administrations...