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...news, such as it is, is that researchers at a Minnesota sleep-disorders center are going to publish a paper in which they have identified a few dozen people who, after taking Ambien, developed uncontrollable urges to eat while they were asleep and didn't remember their feeding binges when they woke up. Meanwhile, in the popular press, there are sporadic accounts of folks driving their cars while under the influence of Ambien and even some claims of sleepwalking that turned into sleep driving...
...into one junior’s suite at the Ritz-Carlton, faced blistering criticism upon its release last December. Several op-eds in The Crimson accused the Scene editors of misrepresenting the social and cultural scene at Harvard. “Our goal, in the broadest sense, was to publish a magazine that would interest Harvard’s campus,” Kaden wrote. “We certainly believe we accomplished that.” But Rebecca J. Hammer ’06, creator of the “Scene Magazine is Bullshit” facebook.com group, wrote...
...place waking up at the annual meeting of China's parliament, the National People's Congress (NPC), which wrapped up a week-long session on Tuesday. Here was Premier Wen Jiabao intoning the importance of "building a new socialist countryside." There were education officials unveiling a campaign to publish dozens of new Marxist university textbooks. NPC delegates, who had dutifully attended mandatory sessions to study speeches by Chairman Mao, even failed to pass a Western-style property rights law because, in part, Party leftists felt the proposed legislation might enshrine private property-a clear socialist...
...right to know. Rather said he thought sensitive information should be printed and that the burden ought to be placed on the government to prove why information should not be printed. Of the recent controversial Danish cartoons, Rather said that while he thinks the Danish newspaper was right to publish them, “it might not have been the right thing for everybody, everywhere.” “I’ve seen politicians speak and it was clear that Rather was very aware of his audience and he was speaking closely to the questions...
...dynamic than any university computer science department. That's the way Rick Rashid, the senior VP in charge who was a professor at Carnegie Mellon, designed it . "For me basic research has to be first and foremost about moving the state of the art forward in computer science. We publish in peer reviewed journals just like professors so that our research is subject to the same purity of process that a university would have," says Rashid. "It's not about doing things that are necessarily going to turn into products-product groups do a pretty good job of that. Researchers...