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...evidence continues to mount on the health benefits of adequate sleep. A new study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that sleeping less than seven and a half hours a day may be associated with a greater risk for heart disease, particularly for those whose blood pressure spikes overnight...
...winning the war in, Afghanistan. But when Obama takes office on Jan. 20, he will inherit a war complicated by years of neglect. Seven years on, military commanders are struggling to find a winning strategy in a fight whose cost in both blood and treasure continues to mount even as security disintegrates. Coalition soldiers are dying in greater numbers now than in any year since 2001. So are Afghan civilians - who are victims of the insurgency as well as mistaken aerial bombardments made necessary by a shortage of troops. The Bush Administration, in its assessment due in December, will recommend...
...seen the last of belligerent behavior by extreme leftist groups that have largely been dormant since Action Directe was smashed in 1987. "The economic and financial crisis the world is now experiencing is a dream come true to the extreme-left, especially with mainstream leftist political parties unable to mount any real opposition to ruling conservatives," Jacquard notes. "That brings the possibility of social unrest radical leftists may seek to exploit - or even provoke through violence of their...
...teacher and mentor, who brought out the very best in everyone who had the privilege to learn with him.” Epstein was the program director of the General Clinical Research Center at Beth Israel, where he studied mechanisms of acute renal failure. He also conducted research at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Maine, focusing most recently on the cellular transport of salt in a shark model of the ascending limb of mammalian kidneys. He worked in the Desert Island lab for 40 years and served as its president for 10 years. As a research mentor in Maine...
...Dems' precarious power in the Senate meant that Lieberman could pretty much say what he wanted. Al Gore's 2000 running mate, he had been forced to run for re-election in 2006 as an independent after liberals groups angry over his support for the war in Iraq helped mount a successful primary challenge. Since then, Lieberman has caucused with the Democrats - his presence among their ranks giving them control of the Senate with a 51-49 majority - while siding with the Bush Administration on Iraq and the war on terror...