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Their names have endured as clichés of musical humor, be it in an ancient Cheech and Chong routine or the tongue-in-cheek moniker of the near-forgotten rock band Blind Melon. But there was nothing funny about Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Blake, who in their time exerted a huge influence on the evolution of popular music. A pair of new compilations from Shanachie, painstakingly assembled from old recordings from the 1920's and enhanced for maximum audio quality, provides a valuable insight on the oeuvre of both of these unique performers...
PERCHANCE TO DREAM For every traveler who ever doubted that melatonin could help jet lag, here's new research confirming that the supplement is one potent pill. High doses were given to blind people who had no ability to perceive light and dark and as a result suffered profound sleep disorders. After just two months, all the patients were sleeping more restfully and returned to normal body rhythms. For melatonin to work for sighted frequent flyers, it must be taken at specific times during the day, depending on which direction they're traveling and how many time zones they cross...
That discovery alone merited a Nobel Prize, but Carlsson soon made another. For years, doctors prescribed drugs for schizophrenia with a kind of blind chemical faith; the medications reduced symptoms, but no one knew just how. In the 1960s, Carlsson discovered that they work by preventing nerve cells from taking up dopamine. That penetrating insight led directly to better antischizophrenia drugs...
...felt like I was flying blind," says Ayirini M. "Rini" Fonseca-Sabune '04. "Nobody told me what I should be looking...
...most confident of the group, perhaps because she's seen something of the world. Leila graduated from high school a semester early and worked the second half of her senior year in a school for the blind in Ghana...