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Melatonin, as well as its analogs, have the added advantage of being less addictive and safer than other sleep-inducing medications. (The current study reported no immediate adverse effects of tasimelteon, though participants were not examined the following day.) In recent years, the popular prescription sleep aid Ambien, for example, has been linked to a range of bizarre sleepwalking incidents, including air rage. In a high-profile case in London in 2002, REM guitarist Peter Buck was cleared of assault and drunkenness charges stemming from his destructive rampage aboard a British Airways flight, after successfully claiming that his Ambien pill...
BOCA RATON, FLA. White-and-blue patterns, like the one found on Ralph Lauren Home's Côte d'Azur soup bowl ($55), are popular in this enclave...
...erotic intersection of "eugenics, nudism and figure studies." By the end of that decade and into the 1930s, the nascent comic book industry was a leading purveyor of porn. Folios known as "Tijuana Bibles" - 2-by-4-in., eight-page booklets named after their alleged place of publication - portrayed popular cartoon characters and movie stars (from Popeye to Al Capone) engaged in various immoral acts...
...last year, according to a Nielsen Online survey. But overall budgets have shrunk, as tapped-out consumers have grown increasingly anxious about the economy. As a result, people are trading down in the stores they frequent and the number of items they buy. Case in point: the most popular product seen on BlackFriday.info's shopping lists was Wal-Mart's Batman and Spider-Man pajama sets, requested on more than 10,000 lists. The price: a mere...
...millions of Italians tuned into the ever-popular local version of Celebrity Survivor, or Isola dei Famosi ("Island of the Famous"). The show was wrapping up its sixth season with the coronation of the latest champion, Vladimir Luxuria, a former cabaret performer and Refounded Communist party member. In 2006, the unlikely politician became the first transvestite to be elected to Italy's parliament...