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...Experts estimate that anywhere from three to nine million Americans suffer from the neurological condition that triggers an intense, often irresistible urge to move the legs. The tingling, burning sensation associated with RLS can last for hours and worsens at night, causing severe insomnia, according to Dr. David Rye, director of Emory's Healthcare Program in Sleep Medicine, and one of the study's lead authors. For most people it develops during middle age and gets progressively worse over time. Nearly 60% of RLS sufferers have a family history of the condition. Jones, for example, has seven siblings, four...
STEPHEN D. CLARK Rye...
Although the thought of Johnny Rotten writing the next Catcher in the Rye seems weird, Portman is punk's best-educated tone-deaf singer. An excellent student at Berkeley, he deferred a Ph.D. program in history at Harvard to play in a Bay Area punk band. Not only that, but he knew the teen genre because in high school he worked as a children's librarian, and as part of the job he downed all the young-adult classics. The Mr. T Experience's teen anthems were surprisingly literary: a breakup song, Checkers Speech, is based on Nixon's television...
Even after the cutting and streamlining, the book is deeply nuanced--a teen novel in the way that Mark Twain wrote teen novels. Or J.D. Salinger. In fact, the punk conceit of King Dork is that the main character rails against "the cult of Catcher in the Rye." The cover of King Dork is a faux red Catcher cover, with the title and Salinger's name erased and replaced by Portman's. "I always felt a lot of people might have been faking the adulation of it, to impress their parents or their teachers," says Portman. Plus, he knew that...
...last season, junior Matt Hoff and sophomore Mike Fucito, the Crimson brought the nation's second-best per-game scoring average of 2.56 into the weekend. Harvard bested that number with a standout Senior Day performance from Charles Altchek, the 2005 league Player of the Year. The forward from Rye, N.Y. scored Harvard’s final two goals of the day, his league-leading 11th and 12th of the season. The Crimson will now await seeding in the 2006 NCAA Tournament. The tourney grants the Ivy League victor an automatic...