Word: houres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...about 18 students. “The bad news is, there’s no way around it,” he said. “There’s no magic pill to allow yourself to work on less sleep.” Lockley said that even six hours of sleep can be detrimental to a day’s work. Lack of sleep can cause obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, increased risk of accidents, and poorer learning and memory, Lockley added. “People really need eight and a half hours a night, on average...
...scrapped plans to revise its popular examination for prospective graduate students, citing concerns about access to the test. The proposed revision of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) was slated to take effect in October. It would have tacked 90 minutes on to the two-and-a-half hour test and eliminated some question formats, including analogies. It would also have made cheating more difficult, since the test would only be administered 35 days a year, with a completely new test developed each time. The test is currently administered more than 250 times a year. But four years and $12 million...
...Doctor Frankensteins” learned the tricks of the trade Friday from the first woman chief of the White House speechwriting office. Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow Chriss A. Winston, President George H. W. Bush’s onetime head speechwriter, took a few dozen undergraduates on a two-hour tutorial about how to “take a colorless, passionless, humorless lump of words and somehow mold that into a speech that has life and lift.” Having a clear core message—“preferably one with news value?...
...Baghdad itself was largely quiet for much of the day as 24-hour ban on vehicles brought a pause in the daily drumming of car bombs around the city. But by mid afternoon the sounds of violence in central Baghdad were back. Two huge explosions shook the central portion of the city, and the wail of sirens came soon after. If the short-lived truce is effectively dead, many more such sounds of violence are likely to fill the few quiet quarters of Baghdad in the days and weeks ahead...
...Typically there are a few key holes, a few specific answers for why we did well,” Rhoads added. “This was just a better total effort, given the conditions—they’re out there for five-hour rounds for both days—the fact that they were able to stay pretty level and not get upset at conditions that were out of their control was what helped us win.” The Crimson was led by freshman Sarah Harvey, who shot a 79 on both days for a combined score...