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...magic pill to allow yourself to work on less sleep.” Lockley said that even six hours of sleep can be detrimental to a day’s work. Lack of sleep can cause obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, increased risk of accidents, and poorer learning and memory, Lockley added. “People really need eight and a half hours a night, on average,” he said. This average refers to per night, Lockley said, meaning that students cannot make up for lost sleep on the weekend. “There’s really...
...picture of climate change paralyzes rather than galvanizes the public. But the unwritten word behind the IPCC's dire predictions, and its source of hope, is if. If we can limit and later eliminate carbon emissions, if we can make a rapid transition to cleaner energy, if we help poorer nations adapt to the changes underway, then the worst consequences will be averted. But that can only happen if we act globally...
...never did get to interview the President, and the readers of TIME will be always the poorer for that. But by the time I left Sao Tome and Principe, I, you know, really couldn't be bothered...
Second, it is a way for the rich to export the real costs and sacrifices of pollution control to the poorer segments of humanity in the Third World. (Apparently, Hollywood's plan is to make up for that by adopting every last one of their children.) For example, GreenSeat, a Dutch carbon-trading outfit, buys offsets from a foundation that plants trees in Uganda's Mount Elgon National Park to soak up the carbon emissions of its rich Western patrons. Small problem: expanding the park encroaches on land traditionally used by local farmers. As a result, reports the New York...
...impact on the psyche of black Americans today. In conversations about what it means to be “authentically” black, people often reference one’s connection to the ghetto. In other situations, someone’s economic background may be checked—the poorer you are, the more legitimately black...