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...Adore the Snore I enjoyed your piece "The Snore Wars" [Sept. 1]. I would like to share a remarkable discovery I made while traveling the country on business and sharing hotel rooms with a male colleague who had a snore like an outboard motor. You cannot win a snore war by fighting the noise; you can win by embracing the sound. Simply set your breathing rhythm to the rhythm of the snore, and the sound becomes a sleep aid. Now I like it when my colleague goes to sleep first because I fall asleep faster. Colin Dangaard, Malibu, Calif...
...mandate would allow. “We must balance our use of its income to support the current generation against our duty to preserve its purchasing power for future generations,” University President Drew G. Faust said in her Commencement address in June. “We cannot treat our endowment as a lump sum.” Even if Grassley were to act on his legislative threat, the looming presidential election makes it unlikely that a new law would be passed before the next U.S. Congress is sworn in next January. —Staff writer Clifford...
...While the Federal Emergency Management Agency has pledged to eventually pay for some evacuees' temporary housing, many folks cannot afford the up-front-costs of hotels and fuel, much less food. It hasn't helped matters that many of the evacuees encountered overcrowded, dirty makeshift shelters only a week ago. Nevertheless, many Louisiana residents haven't been taking chances. "You can't find a hotel room in Hattiesburg - people booked early," observed Gwen James, a realtor in that south-central Mississippi city, which has become kind of hotspot for evacuees partly because it lies far inland, along Interstate 59. Indeed...
...raped before her murder. Yet in the immediate aftermath of the crime, the Kenyan authorities refused to declare the death a murder, insisting that Julie either killed herself or was torn apart by wild animals. When Ward presented evidence to the contrary, pointing out that animals or dead women cannot start fires, a British Foreign Office official told him that his daughter was probably struck by lightning (This has also since been ruled...
...over how to share power with MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai. Tsvangirai won more votes than Mugabe in the first round vote on March 29, but boycotted the runoff in the face of violent intimidation. South African-mediated talks have sought to create a unity government, but the two sides cannot agree on how to allocate power within such an arrangement. (See photos of Political Tension in Zimbabwe here...