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...first mission was daunting: to scale a range of steep mountains and set up an observation point overlooking a road the Australians had dubbed Route Titanium, which large numbers of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters were using as a way to the Pakistan border. After an eight-hour journey by truck, the men had just three hours to climb the mountain under cover of darkness. For the next three weeks, they lived off the land. The survival skills needed for such operations take years to acquire - and are the source of one SAS nickname, "the chicken stranglers." According...
...Finally, there were the big upcoming specials: besides the Winter Olympics, there's a remake of The Poseidon Adventure, a sequel to earthquake thriller 10.5 and an eight-hour miniseries about 9/11...
...page 10 of “Harvard Rules” (the perusal of which occupied my eight-hour travel day at the end of spring break), would-be muckraker Richard Bradley has this to say of our illustrious president Larry Summers during his undergrad years...
Unions? Aren’t those just special interest groups getting in the way of economic growth? On the contrary, unions were historically how workers in America won the rights that we now take for granted: eight-hour days, two-day weekends, workplace safety. Polls reveal that a majority of workers still say they want to be organized in unions. But today, only 12.5 percent actually belong to unions. What’s going...
...bodies and brains in good working order. "There's this enormous commercial push now to convince people that if they don't get eight hours of sleep a night, there's something wrong with them," Siegel says. But in fact, there's more mythology than substance to the eight-hour figure. Back in the 1980s, a survey of more than 1 million people found that those who slept more than 7 1/2 hours a night tended to die a little sooner than their more sleep-deprived counterparts. But there is a wide enough variation in the data that...