Word: beds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Young people screw with their minds with a variety of common bedtime behavior don ts. Cramming for work with too many all-nighters, catching z s at irregular hours or going to bed in noisy environments can induce a state of chronic insomnia, debilitating both physical performance and mental cognition. >=For people in good health, the occasional event is nothing to worry about. But if you create a bad habit, you re going to end up fatigued, your mood is going to change and your performance will be impaired,=It knocks you out, but you wake up a few hours...
...Here s a big surprise: Passing out after a night of double fisting and then jolting out of bed chipper early the next morning doesn t count as a substitute for quality shut eye. Harvard students are among the most notoriously careless when it comes to sleep habits, whether because of guzzling or cramming...
...film faces. As a Paris fashion magnate who takes up with a bisexual stud (Vincent Martinez, purring his sullenness through a Joaquin Phoenix mouth), Huppert brings her appraising intelligence to a sugar-mommy role. She wants her young beau to be a gentleman at table and a beast in bed; often she stares at him as if he were under glass or in a cage. The movie asks, What would you pay for great sex? Your self-esteem? Not the great Huppert. This swank, thoughtful film gives full rein to that rare actress who, as tears stain her cheeks...
...improve your chances of getting a good night's sleep? Start by restricting your time in bed to two activities: sleep and sex. If you don't fall asleep within 20 minutes, get up and read quietly in another room so that your brain associates your bed with sleep, not anxiety. Meanwhile, work with your body instead of against it. Don't nap after 3 p.m. Cut back on caffeine, especially in the afternoon or evening. Don't drink alcohol at night; it may allow you to fall asleep more easily but you're likely to suffer a rebound effect...
...Neumann's handwritten lab notebooks describing the construction and testing of his primitive computer systems. Interspersed with technical data are comments such as, "5 a.m.: I've been at this all night, and I still can't find the problem. I'm disgusted and I'm going to bed!"--a sentiment any computer programmer will recognize. Von Neumann didn't just design the stored-program computer; he was the first hacker...