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Americans are not renowned for their powers of self-deprivation; doing without is not something we do particularly well. But experts say there is one necessity of life most of us consistently fail to get: a good night's sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Staying Sharp: Sleeping Your Way to the Top | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard student, he persuaded Byrd to bring him along as a dog driver. Affectionately dubbed "the Colonel" in his adopted home state of Alaska, he climbed the 10,302-ft. Mount Vaughan (named for him by Byrd) to celebrate his 89th birthday. His motto: "Dream big, and dare to fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 9, 2006 | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...Harvard student, he persuaded Byrd to bring him along as a dog driver. Affectionately dubbed "the Colonel" in his adopted home state of Alaska, he climbed the 3,140-m Mt. Vaughan (named for him by Byrd) to celebrate his 89th birthday. His motto: "Dream big, and dare to fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

...indictment of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who was the vice president’s chief of staff, on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice arising from the inquiry.Woodward gave a two-hour deposition to Fitzgerald under oath on Nov. 14, after failing to reveal for more than two years that he had been told in “mid-June 2003” by a current or former Bush administration official that Plame worked as an “analyst” at the CIA, according to a statement released by Woodward...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Woodward Said Novak's Source "Was Not in the White House" | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...security of our citizens, and will lay the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren." And in a touch clearly not aimed at the Muslim world, the President closed with a quotation from the carol that begins ?I heard the bells on Christmas day?. ?The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, with peace on Earth, goodwill to men.? He pointed out that it was written during the Civil War. It is by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose oldest son received a crippling injury...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush Shows Humility Over Iraq | 12/18/2005 | See Source »

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