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To simulate staying up all night and sleeping extra hours the next day to catch up, the researchers put nine volunteers on a specialized sleep-wake schedule consisting of 33 hours of wakefulness and 10 hours of sleep. Using a series of tests, the researchers measured the subjects' reflexes, motor...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chronic Sleep Loss Causes Slowed Reaction Time | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

I think in Afghanistan, as difficult as those choices were - and me sending in additional troops over the next two years was probably the toughest decision that I've made this year among a lot of very tough decisions, because it involved the lives of young men and women in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q&A: Obama on His First Year in Office | 1/21/2010 | See Source »

Nowhere was that more true than in the ill-conceived investment to turn the twinned 11,000-unit middle-class housing complex known as Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, built originally to accommodate World War II veterans, into luxury housing, for which limits on yearly rent increases are chucked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Private Equity Invest in Residential Real Estate? | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

The government's move follows a flurry of renewed interest in the crime in popular culture. In September, a blockbuster film that dramatized the murder, The Case of the Itaewon Homicide, swept South Korea. That same month, a South Korean television crew discovered Patterson was living in Sunnyvale after the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea Reopens the Burger King Murder File | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

Like the knee-jerk decision to dismantle the Iraqi army, the U.S. decision in 2003 to ban members of the former ruling Baath Party from joining the new Iraqi government was one of the biggest blunders of the early American occupation of post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. It instantly alienated an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could a Sunni Candidates Ban Imperil Iraq's Election? | 1/19/2010 | See Source »

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