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...respectable side of that border, scientists agree that the brain produces melatonin in response to the setting of the sun. For reasons that are not entirely clear, elevated levels of melatonin in the blood lull the body into sleep, while reduced levels during the day help keep it awake. So far, melatonin's best customers have been frequent flyers who use over-the-counter potions to counteract the effects of jet lag--by artificially shortening their "day" according to the number of time zones they have crossed...
...highbrow gossip column (the famous names could be in boldface), but it lacks the analytical substance that one has come to expect from its author. In a lovely passage, Vidal says he learned from his grandfather ''the ability to detect the false notes in those arias that our shepherds lull their sheep with"--and in fact his story sparkles when he deftly exposes the hypocrisies of Hollywood and Washington. As a writer he is at his best as an uncompromising critic, and at one point turns his sensibility on himself with sharp-eyed accuracy: ''In this text," he writes...
Indeed, he notes, the large number of storms this year seems unusual only because the U.S. has experienced a hurricane lull for the past 25 years. A correction is now overdue and, when it comes, he warns, "We're going to see hurricane damage like we've never seen it before." It's not that the storms are necessarily getting more severe but that there has been massive population growth and an accompanying building boom along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. More people live between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, notes political scientist Roger Pielke Jr. of the National Center...
After a three-month lull, the battle between Hamas and its foes has again been joined. The blast in Ramat Gan, which killed six Israelis, and now the one in Jerusalem have conjured up images of last fall and early winter, when Palestinian attacks, mostly suicide bombings, claimed 53 victims over four months. The violence nearly sank the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, as Israeli public opinion turned against expanding Palestinian self-rule. Now the question is again alive: Will the bloodletting drown the goodwill? "The peace process will go on," says a U.S. State Department official, "but how long...
They are giving drivers who have ignored traffic lights for year a taste of their own medicine. The strategy appears to be cross the street while you can during a lull in traffic, because you might not get the chance when the cars, cabs, buses and trucks increase their speed the second they see yellow light...