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...clinical trials of 450 people who were subjected to simulated jet lag in a sleep laboratory (participants were forced to go to bed at 6 p.m. and wake up at 2 a.m.), a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that the new drug restored near normal sleep the first night it was used. In one arm of the study, participants taking a high dose of the drug actually fell asleep more quickly than usual. In another part of the study, pill-takers' sleep efficiency - the percentage of bed-time spent sleeping - remained unchanged after experiencing...
...competitors aimed to stoke readers' prurient desires, and in winning the battle, they ended up transforming American culture. By marketing sex as a normal, healthy pursuit, Playboy prodded the country to dispense with "old-fashioned moral strictures on one of the most powerful of human urges," according to Hefner biographer Steven Watts. But their efforts may ultimately have been too successful for their own good. A nation receptive to porn and wired for the Web has been a dangerous combination for print magazines. With pornography comprising 25% of all Internet searches, according to GOOD magazine's estimate, magazines have seen...
...massacre. "But after these recent attacks, people are saying let's not pretend everything's all right. We don't need to make a show of the Mumbai spirit when what we need now is to make sure this will not be forgotten, all will not be normal again...
...than buying clothes. It is an escape from Black Friday,” said Suzanne M. Wolfe, who shopped with her son Medical School professor Richard E. Wolfe. Ivy League outfitter J. Press was minimally affected by the day, according to General Manager Denis E. Black—a normal occurrence for the store, he said. Their male clientele was most likely completing holiday shopping for the family on Black Friday, and would return to J. Press the next weekend, Black said. In light of economic developments, Cambridge business operators were marked in their optimism. “In this...
...There’s never been a month in my 20 years at the union where nobody got laid off at the university,” he said, referring to normal fluctuations in employment. “Saying ‘no layoffs’ is an oversimplification, so we’re going to make sure that there is as little impact as possible on our members because of this...