Word: sleepfulness
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...most dangerous times for heart attack and for all kinds of cardiovascular emergency - including sudden cardiac death, rupture or aneurysm of the aorta, pulmonary embolism and stroke - are the morning and during the last phase of sleep. A group from Harvard estimated this risk and evaluated that on average, the extra risk of having a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, between 6 a.m. and noon is about 40%. But if you calculate only the first three hours after waking, this relative risk is threefold...
...boards were put on a bus in Ho Chi Minh City, bound for Danang -- except that two bridges washed out midway. The mostly monosyllabic surfers (How do you like it here? ''Awesome.'' How do you feel? ''Stoked'') hung out without complaint. After all, all they ever do is eat, sleep, surf and have sex, wearing basically no more raiment in one endeavor than another. The scene of this wait was the Non Nuoc Hotel, which offered the same amenities (dim corridors, rough toilet paper) that you get in what used to be called the Soviet bloc. The Vietnamese smiled charmingly...
...latest, Erotica, has sold about 2 million in the U.S., down from Like a Virgin's 7 million. Sex, her notorious $50 diary and sado-catechism, enjoyed a frenetic first-day sale in bookstores but quickly reached climax, then rolled over like a sated lover and went to sleep. It's true that her current caravan, traversing four continents and 20 cities (including New York last week, Philadelphia and Detroit this), is a smash. Biggest thing since the Who tour, you hear; biggest thing since the Rolling Stones. Alas, these fossils of Jurassic Rock are the merest nostalgia items...
...sound dreaded by sleep-starved parents around the world: the piercing wail of a newborn demanding immediate attention. Yet last week all Japan seemed to be hanging on the phone to hear an infant shriek. The sound comes from a baby panda born June 1 at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. Its plaintive cries were recorded, and can be heard by those dialing a special toll number. Word of the hot line caused pandemonium, and as many as 200,000 calls a day were logged. Zoo officials hope the baby's 226-lb. mother has become nimbler since last year, when...
...train as those around them bang into each other like bowling pins with no space to tumble. Talking on a cell phone is strongly discouraged, however texting tends to be the favorite activity of most of the train riders. Tokyo commuters have also developed an uncanny ability to sleep standing up, somehow waking up just when the train reaches their station...