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...worked on a campaign, and put in your dues, you’ve proven yourself and you’ve met the people who are going to be at a high level in the administration,” Kendall said...
With the huge success of Apple’s iTunes, we’ve only begun to see the potential for capitalizing on legal Internet music downloads. Users sign up for the service and have access to millions of music files instantly. iTunes has proven to be a boon to an industry otherwise doomed to downloading exploitation. There is no good reason that a similar service could not be devised for downloading movies—and it’s towards this goal that the movie industry should be devoting its efforts...
...sleep debt” without this optimum amount of sleep. Sleep debt continually builds up every time you do not sleep enough, and can only be reversed by sleeping more than your optimum. Drowsiness is a sign that your body has accumulated sleep debt. Health experts have proven that teenagers and young adults need even more sleep than adults. According to the 2003 Gallup Youth Survey, 78 percent of American teenagers felt they did not get enough sleep and only 22 percent felt that they got enough sleep...
Even worse, the effects are long term. Accumulation of sleep debt has been proven to cause both psychological and physical health problems in the future. The absurd quantities of caffeine that we use to jolt ourselves awake also cannot be good...
Ittookonlyafewfalsereportsabout WMD for the Bush Administration to invade Iraq because of fears of an imminent threat. So why is nothing being done to resolve Sudan's Darfur crisis [Oct. 4], a proven humanitarian catastrophe? Perhaps it is because that tragedy does not pose any immediate danger to the U.S. and the rest of the developed world. Peace negotiations, U.N. convoys and delegations to assess the nature of the genocide are not the solution for Sudan. What is the difference between the Iraqi insurgents and the government-backed Janjaweed militia in Sudan's Darfur...