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...they still don't know the ideal amount of it needed to keep our bodies and brains in good working order. "There's this enormous commercial push now to convince people that if they don't get eight hours of sleep a night, there's something wrong with them," Siegel says. But in fact, there's more mythology than substance to the eight-hour figure. Back in the 1980s, a survey of more than 1 million people found that those who slept more than 7 1/2 hours a night tended to die a little sooner than their more sleep-deprived...
...brain, sleep seems to detoxify it. Animals with a high metabolic rate, like field mice and bats, use a lot of calories and generate a lot of destructive molecules called free radicals. "The brain is particularly susceptible to this because neurons, by and large, don't regenerate," says Jerome Siegel, a neuroscientist at UCLA and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Los Angeles. Maybe sleep provides necessary downtime so that the brain can deal with all those free radicals...
Jonathan M. Siegel, Leon Neyfakh and Simon W. Vozick-Levinson contributed to the reporting for this article...
...expensive food anymore. So the now empty-handed caterers are going after your business directly. Leading the way are two of the industry's biggest caterers, Switzerland-based Gate Gourmet Group Inc. and Germany-based LSG Sky Chefs. "Before, our customer was the airline," says David Siegel, former president and CEO of US Airways Group Inc. and Gate Gourmet's newly appointed chairman and CEO. "Now, it is the passenger." How do passengers feel about forking over money for food? Dalene Nichols, spokeswoman for Sky Chefs, says its customers "are embracing the concept." In fact, recent company surveys show that...
...Everybody's eyes are now open to the fact that preppy can be chic," says Robert Siegel, chairman of Lacoste USA. Now that it's everywhere, at least you don't need the country-club membership to look the part...