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Some of the most provocative sleep research doesn't have anything to do with the brain at all. A few years after researchers isolated a natural hormone they called leptin, which tells the brain that the body has enough fatty tissue, Eve Van Cauter and her colleagues at the University of Chicago began to wonder whether sleep deprivation has any effect on the amount of leptin in the blood. They soon discovered that after just a couple of days in which 12 male volunteers were allowed to get only four hours of sleep a night, their leptin levels fell sharply...
Seven Beauties, Wertmuller's cauter izing comedy of survival and desperation during World War II, was greeted with critical bouquets and land-office business at its Manhattan opening. Critic John Simon placed the director in "the highest regions of cinematic art." Not, at least, since Bernardo Bertolucci has a European film maker been so acclaimed...
...trying to perfect a plan which will offer the commuter the same opportunities offered to members of the Houses includes: Frederick A. Webster '35, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, Victor H. Kramer '35, vice-president of the association, E. Francis Bowditch '35, president of the Student Council, Cauter, and Joseph D. Golden '37, who organized the petition from the commuters...
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