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Sleep is a funny thing. We're taught that we should get seven or eight hours a night, but a lot of us get by just fine on less, and some of us actually sleep too much. A study out of the University of Buffalo last month reported that people who routinely sleep more than eight hours a day and are still tired are nearly three times as likely to die of stroke--probably as a result of an underlying disorder that keeps them from snoozing soundly...
...native of Brooklyn, New York, Pollack received his bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1972. He then earned his master’s in history from Brandeis in 1974 and in business administration from Boston University...
DIED. JACK HENRY ABBOTT, 58, philosophical criminal whose unsettling letters to Norman Mailer about inmate life were turned into a best-selling book, In the Belly of the Beast; a suicide, by hanging; in his cell in Alden, N.Y., near Buffalo. With Mailer's help, Abbott, serving time for armed robbery and killing an inmate, won parole and a research job in 1981. Six weeks later, he was back in jail after stabbing to death a New York City waiter. He wrote that prisoners "cannot be subdued. Only murdered...
Indeed, any program that treats kids successfully has to involve the entire family, says Leonard Epstein, a psychologist at State University of New York at Buffalo and director of one of the most successful pediatric-obesity programs in the country. "You really need to include the parents as part of the treatment," he says, if only because parents of obese children are often overweight or obese themselves. Usually, the entire family could stand to modify its diet and reduce high-fat foods and sweets. Epstein encourages families to build exercise into their daily lives, taking walks together after dinner...
Just examine the team. How is New England better this year than seasons past? Some point to the addition of Antoiwan Smith, a cast-off running back from Buffalo. Smith has been decent, but nothing special. He has rushed for 749 yards on 199 carries. Smith is twelfth in the NFL in total yardage but his 3.8 yards-per-carry average is not tremendous. Smith has also rushed for under 40 yards in a game five times this season...