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...novelty just as much as everybody else does. It's very, very hard for me to look away from my RSS reader with its constant stream of new stories or new takes on stories. I'm very much into what everybody else is interested in at any given point in time...
...both averaged 3.18. That means high-quality sleep may have contributed to one group of students' B average, while inadequate shut-eye pushed owls into the C range. Peszka also compared the students' high school GPAs with their college scores, and found that owls had lost an entire GPA point once entering college - larks and robins also saw their grades drop (a common phenomenon as students transition from high school to university), but not as much. "Not only did they flat out have a lower freshman GPA," she says of the owls, "but they also dropped their grades more...
Both groups of researchers are quick to point out that academic performance is the product of many different factors - from I.Q. to study habits and effort, and not just sleep - but the new findings suggest that catching good quality z's certainly doesn't hurt, and may even help boost your...
...House leaders note that the typical cost of coverage for a family living at 400% of the poverty level is 14% of their income - an amount that health-care experts do not consider to be onerous. Though not spelled out at this point, the bill will include "hardship" exemptions. More importantly, it would also feature a big expansion of Medicaid, the federal-state program that provides health care to the poor, though lawmakers are still awaiting figures from the Congressional Budget Office that would indicate how much bigger they could make the existing program...
...opposition has been quick to point out the government's failings in dealing with the crisis. Former chief minister and leader of opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP), Mufti Muhammad Sayeed, says the official "mishandling" of the Shopian incident caused its escalation. Some Kashmir watchers also say that the chief minister's early response to the Shopian incident - that there was no evidence of foul play and that the women had likely drowned - got him into trouble. That statement was apparently based on early police information that the autopsy revealed no marks of violence on the dead bodies...