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...Character-Building Initiative” (CBI) circulate: Girls received the gift of snowfall in their Winthrop room; blockmates spent an afternoon bailing water out of their Kirkland House second-story window after their bathtub faucet wouldn’t turn off; Adams House students sleep with earplugs because of noisy heating pipes; showers in Kirkland spew out blackish water; doorknobs come off in the hands of Eliot House residents; melting snow leaks into a fourth-story room of a five-story section of Lowell House (of course, the water first had to make it through the layer of asbestos...
...Instead, Gondry—who also wrote the film—takes the loosely autobiographical plotline as an opportunity to run wild with the refined amateurism that resulted in the high points of his last film, 2006’s “The Science of Sleep.”The victim of an electrical accident, Mike’s sudden magnetism promptly erases the content of every video cassette in his best friend Mos Def’s struggling neighborhood video store. In a race against time and good economic sense, Black and Def begin introducing customers...
...work centers primarily on the lives of four couples, each representing a different issue facing modern Africa.Explored in the relationship between the Ruler and his wife Rachael is the issue confronting so many African countries today: the tyranny of an egotistical ruler. The Ruler’s tendency to sleep with women, sometimes no more than girls, in order to punish their politically insubordinate husbands and fathers epitomizes his deviously manipulative and base regime: for him, they’ve become mere objects to be used. When Rachael confronts him about sleeping with schoolgirls, the Ruler locks her away...
...preponderance of evidence would suggest that it's sleep apnea, which is known to cause severe blood-pressure variations. But, according to Boden-Albala, a growing body of research, including her own past work, suggests that sleep deprivation is linked to a variety of conditions, such as obesity, diabetes and hypertension, that may also contribute to vascular risk. "There's more to it than just sleep apnea but we need to figure out why," says Boden-Albala...
Only a small percentage of participants in Boden-Albala's study suffered from severe daytime sleepiness, but a full 47% reported moderate levels of uncontrollable dozing. "That's a public health problem," she says. "If you think you have a sleep problem, bring it up the next time you see your physician. And if you're falling asleep every single day watching television or when you try to read a book, that might be something serious...