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Under a dim bedside lamp in a hospital ward in Landstuhl, Germany, 1st Infantry Division Specialist Shane Salter sobs for his dead sergeant, whose hand he clutched in a morgue in Iraq just five days earlier. At 22, Salter, from Walla Walla, Washington, is so young that he called 29-year-old Sergeant Kyle Childress "Grandpa." "He always took care of me," says Salter, who lost two fingers when his platoon burst into a bombmaker's house near Samarra one night and was met with a torrent of machine-gun fire. As Childress fell, Salter emptied his M-4 rifle...
...have much reason to celebrate this rousing success for the Undergraduate Council. No longer will Lamont close its doors on the crowds of dedicated students working late into each night. No longer will the typically overburdened undergraduate retreat to a dark dorm room to study, huddled under a desk lamp with a roommate sleeping only a few feet away...
...Crimson had done everything but score, launching 24 shots on goal and enjoying three power plays to no avail. Julie Chu handled the puck behind the net and blindly backhanded it out in front. The pass found a driving Corriero and she unleashed a screaming slapshot, lighting the lamp with 21 seconds left in the frame...
...remember Engagement, Jeunet took a beautifully crafted wooden hand that was used by one of the actors. It is a welcome addition to past keepsakes, which include the pig lamp from Amélie and an alien prop from Alien: Resurrection. He speculates that the alien may be useful in frightening thieves...
More than a regular bedside lamp, light boxes can provide relief to many SAD sufferers, bathing users in full-spectrum lighting that mimics the effects of the sun. Advertisers claim light therapy works in up to 70 percent of users, and science tends to agree. “Light therapy certainly works for some people, but there’s been a lot of controversy because it’s been hard to prove it in placebo-controlled trials,” says Burr. “Still, there’s enough evidence that it is [effective...