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...students who cram for a test until the daylight hours, they may find it difficult to get back on track the next morning. Kronauer said since people are most sensitive to light in the evenings, working through the night can wreak havoc with the circadian pacemaker...
...constructing a sophisticated missile force that could pack a punch tomorrow. The Pentagon says China is developing sophisticated short-range ballistic missiles and lethal antiship cruise missiles. And though the Chinese have yet to adopt many of the tricks they picked up by stealing U.S. secrets--how to cram multiple warheads on a single missile, for instance--Representative Christopher Cox is not alone in his fear that the spying may have helped accelerate an Asian arms race...
Nakamaye received equally laudatory remarks from his students, one of whom wrote, "I actually look forward to the 7 to 10 a.m. cram sessions before finals...Mike won't leave until every- -one's questions are answered...
...Stanford students settle down to work hard. For those who rely on lulls in the curriculum to handle their work, the quarter system at Stanford will be difficult to handle. It's a running joke that professors originally from Harvard and Yale--both run on semester systems--try to cram everything into the quarter anyway...
...suppose Pat would argue that, as things stand, a lot of the money parents spend on getting kids into college is diverted to businesses--SAT cram courses, for instance, and expensive prep schools--that are clustered around the admissions process, like motels and fast-food joints bellying up to the edge of Disney World. Why not have the money go directly to the college...