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Experts urge parents to stick to consistent bedtimes and wake-up times, even on weekends, though that's a tough sell to teenagers. Another tip: turn off the television at night, and keep it out of children's bedrooms. Needing TV to fall asleep is a bad habit, and TV actually acts as a stimulant. Watch food and drink intake: a light bedtime snack is O.K., but avoid iced tea and sodas with caffeine, which stays in the body for up to six hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School Daze | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...Skeptics point out that Pakistan has a habit of announcing dramatic antiterror moves to coincide with high-level meetings with American officials. At the time of the raid, President Pervez Musharraf had just returned from the U.N. in New York City; Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was meeting with President Bush in Washington; and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who earlier had questioned whether Musharraf had the support of the entire Pakistani military, was preparing a trip to Islamabad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Pakistan Serious? | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

...then smoke-free bars would have already sprung up to meet their demands. Let’s remember it is a paternalistic “do as I say” attitude that has been the real driving force behind this legislation. Smoking is obviously an unfortunate and dangerous habit but there is a huge difference between what decisions health-conscious people should make and what laws the government should enact...

Author: By Joe Flood, | Title: The Smoke-Free Path to Hell | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...then smoke-free bars would have already sprung up to meet their demands. Let’s remember it is a paternalistic “do as I say” attitude that has been the real driving force behind this legislation. Smoking is obviously an unfortunate and dangerous habit but there is a huge difference between what decisions health-conscious people should make and what laws the government should enact...

Author: By Joe Flood, | Title: The Smoke-Free Path to Hell | 10/1/2003 | See Source »

...letters suggest a man for whom writing was less a habit than a need, like food and water, as though the very act shaped his thoughts as much as the thoughts shaped the writing. Reagan didn't type; he wrote by hand in blue or black ink on a yellow legal pad or dictated for his secretaries to transcribe, and so the drafts were often saved, stuffed into a box and then forgotten. In 1996 Kiron Skinner, now a professor at Carnegie Mellon, was researching a book on the end of the cold war when she stumbled on the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Real Reagan | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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