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...Bush tapped him to be an appeals court judge in Newark, a position he has held for 15 years. When Alito was first nominated, it was expected that Democrats would attack him for his opinions as a judge, particularly a 1991 dissenting opinion in which he defended a Pennsylvania law that said a woman must notify her husband before she has an abortion. Democrats also seized on Alito's record of ruling against employees who allege gender or racial discrimination. They were alarmed too by the 1985 Justice Department application and wondered why Alito said he was opposed to Supreme...
Part of the problem is we are so used to being chronically sleep deprived--and have become so adept at coping with that condition--that we no longer notice how exhausted we really are. In 2003, sleep expert David Dinges and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine tested the effects of restricting slumber to eight, six or four hours a night for two weeks. During the first few days, subjects sleeping less than eight hours admitted to being fatigued and lacking alertness. But by Day 4, most people had adapted to their new baseline drowsiness and reported...
...much. (Most of the research to date has been carried out on patients suffering from cognitive deficits.) "It's not like you start out with an IQ of 100 and get an IQ of 140 after taking these drugs," says Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania...
...Then, shortly before midnight, someone burst into the Sago Baptist church and announced that there were 12 survivors. Hundreds of people surged out the door. Church bells rang. For a brief spell, it appeared, there would be a repeat of the stunning 2002 rescue of nine Pennsylvania miners, who had survived more than three days underground after their mine had flooded...
...England Journal of Medicine recently published a paper in which investigators surveyed 187 cases of C. diff at eight health care facilities in Georgia, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon and Pennsylvania. More than half of the cases were caused by the new, more dangerous strain. The CDC conducted a survey of its own, profiling 33 recent cases in four states. Twenty-three of the people had never been hospitalized and the other 10 were women who had had only brief hospital stays to deliver babies-suggesting that the new strain is ranging freer than any C. diff has before...