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Every once in a while, a story about a bizarre pharmaceutical side effect races through the media like a brush fire on a dry, windy day. This time the blaze is coming from the hot-selling sleeping pill called Ambien and its apparent ability to compel some users to eat voraciously in their sleep. Never mind the fact that this particular side effect is seemingly rare--or that it was first reported four years ago. Thousands of sleep-deprived Americans are now wondering if Ambien could turn them into mega-munching zombies...
...drugs and violence don' t mind exposing them to these themes on the big screen. There are too few "magic " years for children; maybe watching Finding Nemo for the 10th time or reading The Secret Garden out loud can prolong them a bit. If nothing else, they ' ll sleep a little better...
...shaped lamp and a plastic tiara. There’s a pink trash can in the corner and a sequin-studded sign reading “Princess” on the wall. She leaves her combat boots outside the door next to her pack, which is stuffed with a sleeping bag, rations, bulletproof Kevlar helmet, compass, digging tool—everything a solider needs to survive. Inside her room, Waterman changes for class. She lets down her blonde hair from the tight bun required by army regulations. Since she’s not running late, she puts on pearls...
...nostalgia,” Kaplan says. “My service in the army is something that I would never take back.” Kaplan has adapted to the Harvard lifestyle. After years of rising at the crack of dawn she has learned to sleep until right before an 11 a.m. meeting. Both young veterans have managed to become, more or less, normal students...
...undergrad. Last summer, Wheeler enlisted right after graduation, and entered basic training. “It was kind of like hell,” Wheeler says. “The drill sergeant is on you from the minute you wake up to the minute you go to sleep, and nothing you do is ever good enough.” On Dec. 8, 2005, Wheeler was officially made an officer after graduating from the Oxford Training School in the top 10 percent of his class. Now stationed in El Paso, Texas, Wheeler is settling into a more comfortable routine...