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...Sleep The Glo to Sleep mask is supposed to calm the storm in your head so you can reach the Land of Nod. You activate the mask's glow-in-the-dark pellets by holding it near a light for 30 seconds, and then kick back and "look up" at the floating, glowing disc shapes (you decide, cosmic snowmen or early Atari video game?). The design is based on meditation practices and scientific research that suggests that looking up and focusing on an object lowers brain-wave frequencies. It did work, as long as I kept looking at the glowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eye Masks: Deep Sleep Prescription-Free | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...technique used here is one called rotoscoping, which essentially draws over footage of actual people; Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was one of the first major films to use rotoscoping, while more recent examples include A Scanner Darkly and Waking Life). "I'm going to kick some ass with my own pipe wrench," when the leather-clad dude pulls out his weapon (where the hell was he hiding that one?). And, the most brilliant line in the video-"Band montage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A-Ha: The Literal Remix | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

Less than a week after the British government sketched an $850 billion plan to steady a nervous banking sector and kick-start a recovery, the details are emerging. Following a flurry of meetings over the weekend, the British Treasury said Monday that it plans to spend as much as $63 billion bolstering the capital bases of three of the country's largest banks, partially nationalizing once mighty lenders in the process. "Today's plan is unprecedented," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said at a Downing Street press conference, "but essential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Sets Details of Huge Bank-Bailout Plan | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...undefeated teams in league play, but the Bears lost 41-34 to Holy Cross and Penn looked unimpressive in a 27-7 victory over Georgetown. Princeton fell to Colgate, 27-24. One of those undefeateds will fall next weekend; Brown travels to Princeton on Saturday for a 1 p.m. kick. Harvard, meanwhile, kept itself in the race. There has not been a two-loss Ivy champion since 1982—when Harvard, Penn, and Dartmouth all finished 5-2 in conference play—so a second league defeat would be difficult to overcome. The Crimson, however, didn?...

Author: By Brad Hinshelwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Crimson Defense Rattles Ford | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

...dividends, as Baskind was able to facilitate play through the midfield, resulting in a number of good Crimson chances over the next several minutes.Sheeleigh had four good chances, just missing scores in the 60th, 62nd, 63rd and 67th minutes. Harvard then doubled its lead off a 73rd minute corner kick.“My position [on corners] is always to go back post, and so I noticed that they’d been keeping that open,” Hagner said.The junior was able to exploit this soft spot in the Big Red defense, powerfully heading Baskind?...

Author: By Tony Bator, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Offense Hits Stride in Easy Victory | 10/13/2008 | See Source »

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