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...Sleep with the Fishes A U.S. company, Eternal Reefs, puts remains in a module that mimics a coral reef. The reef balls, which last 500 years, are then dropped into the ocean to create new marine habitats...
...less likely to die of heart disease than those who pushed through the day without a nap. Michael Irwin, a co-author of the study and psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience at University of California, Los Angeles, said that there are cardiovascular benefits to getting enough sleep every day. “There is a link between poor sleep and cardiovascular mortality,” said Irwin. “Naps taken during the day were associated with lower cardiovascular mortality.” Irwin said that the study has particularly important repercussions for Americans. Average nightly...
...Napoleon said, "Let China Sleep. The day she awakes all the world will be sorry." Nearly 200 years later, the world is divided: some are indeed sorry to witness China's re-emergence, but others are quite happy. Theodore Mathias London...
...confessional genre--A Million Little Peepees--is of a piece with a trend in niched America: alternative media for parents. Alt-rockers They Might Be Giants, Lisa Loeb and the Del Fuegos' Dan Zanes make CDs for their aging fans' tots. The Rockabye Baby! CD series lulls Junior to sleep with covers of songs by the Cure, Radiohead and Tool. The stylish magazine Cookie is marketed to "modern" (i.e., urbane and moneyed) parents who would rather expose their children to Eames than Elmo. Babies may change your life, these media tell us. But there's no reason they need...
...nearly every dormitory photograph, the beds are immaculate and tightly fitted, with no trace of the orphans, patients, or the itinerants who sleep in them...