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...express how the syndrome feels, ranging from "tortured limbs" to "bugs crawling in my legs at night" to "the bone itch." The website also contains the term "Jimmy legs," referring to a popular Seinfeld episode in which Kramer dumps a woman for constantly thrashing her legs in bed -a common, comic treatment of the syndrome. "It's such a trivial-sounding disorder," says Dr. Mark Buchfuhrer, a sleep specialist who is working on his third book about RLS. "People say they've got restless legs and you go, 'Well, calm them down and get over it,' right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Restless Legs Get Respect | 7/19/2007 | See Source »

...early years she seemed uncomfortably slavish, bringing her husband breakfast in bed and, according to author Caro, she laid out his clothes, unbuttoned his shirts, put in the collar stays and cuff links, filled his fountain pens and put them in the proper pocket, filled his cigarette lighter and put a handkerchief and money in their pockets. But as Johnson climbed higher, Lady Bird found her world expanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lady Bird Johnson, 1912-2007 | 7/11/2007 | See Source »

...true Scottish fashion, the country's own city, Glasgow, bore the brunt of most of the widely circulated jokes. One email card featured a heavily bandaged suspect, lying in a hospital bed complaining: "But I was promised 72 virgins." The nurse replies: "Then why...did you come to Glasgow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Smeaton: Scottish Hero | 7/11/2007 | See Source »

...there are doubtless few women who recognize much about the wild, bed-hopping lifestyle that Sex and the City portrays every week. Indeed, only a fifth of single women who watch the show said in the TIME/CNN poll that their life mirrors the show's sexcapades. Yet when asked what they miss most from not being married, 75% of women said companionship, and only 4% said sex. While surveys show married people generally have more sex than supposedly "swinging" singles, it's clear that living alone does not mean a life of abstinence. Experiences vary widely, from women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Needs a Husband? | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...hold the post, arrived at her new quarters to find three battered red ministerial boxes on her desk. Their contents-essential reading to help her master her complex new brief-kept her busy until late in the evening. Then she returned to her London home and went to bed-to be woken a few hours later by the news that there had been an attempted car-bomb attack in the capital. Less than 12 hours after she'd taken office, Britain was facing a full-scale terror crisis, and she was the point person...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home Secretary's Trial by Fire | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

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