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...still completely engaged here," she said. "He calls me at 11 at night from the Treasury Department and he doesn't get any sleep...
...another matter entirely. This kind of decision making has less to do with the frontal lobe than with the pineal gland at the base of the brain. As nighttime approaches and daylight recedes, the pineal gland produces melatonin, a chemical that signals the body to begin shutting down for sleep. Studies by Mary Carskadon at Brown University have shown that it takes longer for melatonin levels to rise in teenagers than in younger kids or in adults, regardless of exposure to light or stimulating activities. "The brain's program for starting nighttime is later," she explains...
...scale of these developments, plus the sewer gases and styrene that Harvard’s construction has released in our neighborhood this summer, can sometimes cause us to lose some sleep. Our most immediate concern, though, is a large real estate project Harvard set in motion but now disavows: the relocation of the Charlesview Apartments...
...that I most certainly wasn’t alone, because across the country, at science camps and singing camps and sports camps, future Harvard students’ revolutions were being awkwardly thwarted by the exact same forces. But just because we were all here being awkward together at a sleep-away camp on the Charles doesn’t necessarily mean that the gawkish days have ended. I remember young Grant Noble’s first Harvard Carnival, baked beans and ranger cookies sliding around his white plastic plate as he tried to manage his cutlery, hold a hotdog...
...father of an individual who had been declared a fugitive from the law. Telephone conversations are, in any case, inadmissible as evidence under Burmese law, but the law offers scant protection for those who challenge military rule in Burma." She also noted that Win Tin was kept without sleep and interrogated non-stop for his first three days in prison. "A man of courage and integrity, Win Tin would not be intimidated into making false confessions," she wrote...