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...research on the benefits of sleep was fascinating, but I wish there had been some information for the benefit of millions of insomniacs like me, whose only desire is to drop off. Jim Holik Denver, Colorado...
...group sifted through lists of dozens of potential candidates. For the Republicans, they guessed that Hagel will battle Sen. George Allen, Sen. Bill Frist, Rudy Giuliani, and Colorado Governor Bill Owens for the nomination. On the Democratic side, they predicted that Bayh, Sen. Hillary R. Clinton, former vice presidential candidate John Edwards, Sen. Russ Feingold, and Governor Bill Richardson would enter the race...
...called the Pineapple Express, in which the jet stream steers powerful cyclonic systems over warm waters near Hawaii, where they tank up with moisture before slamming into the West Coast. That is what happened around the first of the year, when back-to-back storms swept through California, Nevada, Colorado, Arizona and Utah and then went on to savage Ohio...
...Even so, says NOAA drought specialist Douglas LeComte, it's too early to proclaim the long dry spell completely over. Snow is still scant in the northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest, he notes, adding, "It will take more than one wet winter to refill the reservoirs along the Colorado River." --By J. Madeleine Nash
...They cost about $600, twice the price of an avalanche beacon, and they can't be carried as baggage on airlines, which won't accept the pressurized-gas canisters used to inflate the bags. Still, experts hope that will change. Says Dale Atkins, a forecaster at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center, who has participated in 500 mountain searches: "It's the best tool to save lives in avalanches...