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...pizza box left in an electrical oven in Currier House caught fire late Saturday night, filling an entire floor with smoke and forcing the evacuation of at least 30 students from their rooms for more than half an hour. According to Cambridge Fire Department Captain Bob Blake, firefighters responded to a fire alarm on the fourth floor of Gilbert Tower in Currier House at 12:57 a.m. early yesterday, set off when a pizza box that a student had left in an oven caught fire. The fire was largely contained by the oven, and Blake said the alarm had been...
With production workers earning $2 an hour, China is pressing its labor advantage, luring foreign automakers to both supply its domestic market and develop export programs. Almost all the big names?GM, Ford, Honda, Volkswagen?have joint ventures that assemble vehicles for the local market, with sales booming at a 22% average annual clip. Strong sales in China have cooled the impetus to export. So has the majors' ample capacity at plants overseas. And low wages don't make China a low-cost producer. The country has an inefficient supply chain, high component costs (many parts are slapped with import...
...first day at the new job, having absolutely no experience, I was panicked about the prospect of being sent off to write. So I was glad when our morning meeting stretched past the two-hour mark. But by 4 o'clock, after we had ordered lunch and eaten it around the conference table, I was a little freaked out. G-8 meetings don't last that long...
...recommended daily requirements should sound familiar: eight hours of sleep a night for adults and at least an hour more for adolescents. Yet 71% of American adults and 85% of teens do not get the suggested amount, to the detriment of body and mind. "Sleep is sort of like food," says Robert Stickgold, a cognitive neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School. But, he adds, there's one important difference: "You can be quite starved and still alive, and I think we appreciate how horrible that must be. But many of us live on the edge of sleep starvation and just accept...
...otherwise healthy yet perpetually underrested, there's plenty you can do to pay back your sleep debt. For starters, you can catch up on lost time. Take your mom's advice, and get to bed early. Turn off the TV half an hour sooner than usual. If you can't manage to snooze longer at night, try to squeeze in a midday nap. The best time for a siesta is between noon and 3 p.m., for about 30 to 60 minutes, according to Timothy Roehrs, director of research at the Sleep Disorders and Research Center at Henry Ford Hospital...