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...Afterword to Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov wrote that one of the subjects taboo to American publishers was that of "the total atheist who lives a happy and useful life, and dies in his sleep at the age of 106." New Line, having invested something like $180 million in The Golden Compass, is similarly scared of its antireligious content. The company that boldly greenlighted Peter Jackson's $300 million Hobbit ambitions before a frame of the first movie was shot, and made billions from riding that risk, hasn't said yes to films two and three of the Pullman books - although...
ROBERTS I just want to sign up for that eight hours of sleep. Where do I get on that...
...doesn't welcome the sweet oblivion of a good night's sleep? The sad reality, however, is that a decent slumber is increasingly hard to come by. The average adult sleeps an hour and a half less now compared with more than a century ago, thanks to the Internet, e-mail, cell phones and 24-hour entertainment that all take bites out of the sleep cycle. If you need incentive to put some of those hours back into it, consider this: the amount of sleep you get may endanger your life. That's the conclusion reached by a new study...
Research has long documented that people may pay for shorter slumber with a shorter life span. Sleep is the body's opportunity to rest and repair what the day has wrought, and if your heart is working at its 3 p.m. rate when the clock hits 3 a.m., it's simply going to wear out faster. In the new study, epidemiologist Jane Ferrie questioned 7,700 British civil servants about their sleep habits over an eight-year period and found that those who slept six to eight hours nightly at the beginning of the study but decreased the amount...
...natural answer to getting too little sleep is to sleep more--perhaps a lot more. But hold on. Ferrie found that short sleepers who slept each night for five hours or less did indeed decrease their overall risk of dying within eight years when they snagged two to three more hours of sleep a night by the end of the study. But once they started piling up too much sleep, crossing the line to nine hours or more daily, the risk of dying--not from heart disease but from other causes--rises the same 110%. Too few subjects in Ferrie...