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Since Saturday, residents of Kailuana Place have been dealing with the daily motorcade that leaves sometime after 7 a.m. when Obama heads to the Semper Fit Ultimate Health and Fitness Club located at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, in nearby Kaneohe. Alan Shinn, who lives a block away from the security checkpoint leading to the Obama compound on Kailuana Place, says all day long cars drive down to the checkpoint and are turned away, usually with a passenger holding a camera inside. "Everybody is excited about him being that close," says Shinn, "There are a lot of people walking by, people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Tries to Escape in Hawaii | 12/24/2008 | See Source »

Exactly how a lack of sleep is feeding plaque in the heart arteries isn't yet clear, but one explanation may involve inflammation. Too little sleep can raise cortisol levels, which fuels inflammation that can destabilize plaques. Once these deposits rupture, they can block vessels in the heart or brain, causing a heart attack or stroke. While the Chicago team did not track levels of cortisol to test this theory, future studies might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lack of Sleep Linked to Heart Problems | 12/23/2008 | See Source »

...spare, or barely cut a nickel from your utility bill. It all comes down to the precise amount of sunlight that hits your roof. But while we all know that San Antonio gets more sunny days than Seattle, what about one part of San Antonio compared to another? One block of downtown Seattle compared to the next block? "Without that knowledge, renewables can be a bit of a crap shoot,' says Kenneth Westrick, the CEO of the renewable mapping company 3Tier. (See TIME's Top Ten Green Ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mapping Renewable Energy, Rooftop by Rooftop | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

...envelope (so long as it is not from a charity), I stuff that envelope as full as I can with junk from a different source and put it back in the mail. This does not relieve the real problem, but it gives the postal service much-needed business. Steve Block, Dunnellon, Florida

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

...like the six implausible candidates, including rural-affairs activist Chuck Hassebrook and organic farmer Fred Kirschenmann, that a group of prominent foodies recently suggested to Obama - would get ripped to shreds by the aggies on Capitol Hill. Vilsack probably won't launch a Nixon-goes-to-China initiative to block environmentally destructive biofuels, but he might not resist that kind of initiative coming out of the White House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vilsack: Some Hard Choices on Ethanol | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

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