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...four women chatting at an outdoor restaurant in an old cobblestone courtyard would draw little notice in Tehran, perhaps, or Beirut or Amman. But with their heads wrapped in tight scarves, concealing every strand of hair, they stand out against the secular traditions of modern Sarajevo. Friends since childhood, the four women, all 23, laugh when asked how their mothers reacted after they became intensely religious and began wearing head scarves. "It was very strange for them," says Saudina Husic, a student of Arabic and Persian, her legs covered by a pea-green robe that matches her veil. "But they...
...glommed onto the name Foxy Knoxy," Bremner says, referring to the moniker that peppers news coverage and that suggests that Knox had given herself the nickname in reference to her sexual proclivities. "It referred to playing soccer in Seattle as a kid," Bremner says. She and other Knox supporters draw a very different picture of the Seattle native: an athletic, hardworking student, now 21, who maintained three jobs while studying at the University of Washington to be able to afford to study abroad; a lover of the outdoors who cherished hiking in the mountains that flank her home city...
...where should parents draw the line between goodnight cuddling and unhealthy bedtime coddling? Sleep researcher Jodi Mindell says it has less to do with where the baby's crib is physically situated - although, ideally, it should be in a separate room - and more with what parents are doing when their children fall asleep. "It's parental presence," says Mindell, author of Sleeping Through the Night: How Infants, Toddlers and Their Parents Can Get a Good Night's Sleep. "Even if you're sharing a bed or a room, don't be present, either literally or figuratively...
...that sounds like a tremendous amount of faith in the private sector, it is. But the draw of Tysons - its plum location between Washington and Dulles, the major highways cutting through it - has made it endlessly marketable to businesses despite the suburban gridlock. Unlike abandoned subdivisions and flailing inner cities, Tysons thrives (hence the traffic). The Hilton Corp. plans to move its headquarters here from Beverly Hills, Calif. Volkswagen and Gannett already call Tysons home. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...questions about teasing out the specifics of what is important about sleep that impacts learning," says Cousins. "Does sleeping more help our ability to deal with abstract concepts found in math, or does sleep quality increase creativity? We don't know the answers, and don't want to draw those conclusions yet. But this helps us understand more about how sleep helps the things we do in daily life...