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What doctors do know is that burning the midnight oil is bad for your health. Sleep is the body's great restorer. It helps ensure the proper working of the brain, balances the emotions and maintains the immune system. Despite news reports last week suggesting that Provigil might make sleep unnecessary, even Cephalon execs don't go that far. "Provigil is not a substitute for sleep," insists Matthew Miller, senior director of pharmacology. "That's the last thing I want to see happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sleepless In America | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...approaching midnight in central Java and 10 men are piling into the back of a beat-up Daihatsu pickup. Dressed in military fatigues and white caftans with red checked scarves wrapped around their heads in imitation of Palestinian fighters, these young militants from the radical Islamic Mujahidin Council are gearing up for tonight's antivice patrol on the streets of Yogyakarta. The first target: Pasar Kembang, a rundown complex of dingy rooms and narrow corridors in the city's red-light district. Clutching clubs topped with sickles, the Council storm through the rooms as customers flee out the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judge and Jury | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...Election Commission, which monitors council presidential elections, announced at midnight this morning that Lee recieved 1,485 votes to Bonner’s 695 after the conclusion of the three-day voting period. Espy received 283 votes...

Author: By William M. Rasmussen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Election Ends in Easy Victory for Lee | 12/13/2001 | See Source »

Voting ends at midnight tomorrow night...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Computer Glitch Delays Election | 12/11/2001 | See Source »

...Around midnight on Oct. 27, Sudeep Das and his wife Napur were watching an Indian film in their Plainsboro, N.J., apartment when there was a knock on the door. Four local police officers stood outside with some questions to ask the corporate executive. Das claims the officers wanted to see his car, but when he ventured outside to show it to them, he felt handcuffs bite into his wrists. "What's going on?" he asked. The officers politely declined to answer. Instead they asked Das if he had recently reserved a ticket for the shuttle bus from Plainsboro to J.F.K...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Detained: Lost In Translation? | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

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