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...rest of the world, we've become a nation of supersizing, regime-changing, SUV-driving Goliaths. This may be why the NCAA men's basketball tournament?where little mutts like geographically confused Cleveland State and it-can't-possibly-have-a-team Oral Roberts run with purebreds Duke and UCLA?grows in meaning every year. It may also be the gambling, the guilt-free jalapeño-popper binges or the camaraderie born when three-quarters of the workforce enters a two-hour conspiracy to disappear...
...women so different physiologically that they react differently to troubled sleep patterns? Or are men protected somehow from the health effects of poor sleep? To find out, Dr. Edward Suarez at Duke University gathered 210 healthy men and women and asked them detailed questions about their sleep habits--including how long it took them to fall asleep, how many hours they had slumbered in the past month, whether they slept through the night and if they felt drowsy during the day. Then he recorded their levels of cholesterol, insulin, glucose, a clotting agent known as fibrinogen, inflammatory proteins that contribute...
Trianon Palace & Spa Once the honeymoon destination of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Trianon Palace & Spa, located within a stone's throw of the Château de Versailles in France, has undergone an extensive face-lift. Visitors to the five-star hotel, built by René Sergent, the architect who designed the Plaza Athénée in Paris, can meander in the grand public spaces within or in the newly restored gardens. For mealtime, Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay has opened a restaurant in the hotel...
...profane. "Each of these religions is creating its own world, with its own time and space and memory system," he says. They recognize what's of real value, and they encode it, and it forms an architecture of memory." Yes, says Bruce Lawrence, the head of Islamic Studies at Duke University, who was invited to speak at a nearby synagogue when the beginnings of Rosh Hashanah and Ramadan happened to coincide last year...
Michael Munger Political Science Professor Duke University