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...repeat, I’ll forfeit some sleep and go watch the Duck Boats roll...
...Science of Sleep We live in a shortsighted society that sees sleep as an obstacle to productivity [Jan. 24]. But the truth is quite the opposite. A nightly investment in eight hours of rest may lead to even greater accomplishments. The greatest and most imaginative members of society, our children, sleep 10 to 12 hours a night. We should follow their lead. And we certainly shouldn't buy into romanticized notions of how much work we can do without sleep. Lewis J. Kass, M.D., Director Pediatric Sleep Laboratory The Children's Hospital at Montefiore New York City Instead of asking...
DIED. JOHN VERNON, 72, prolific Canadian-born character actor, best known for his role as the paranoid Dean Wormer, nemesis of John Belushi's Bluto and Bluto's unkempt fraternity brothers in the 1978 John Landis comedy Animal House; in his sleep, at his home in Van Nuys, Calif...
...because every year around this time—and, I’m told, in May, too—we have to take final exams. And some of them are in the morning. For morning people, making a 9:15 a.m. exam refreshed after a solid eight hours of sleep is as easy as a Fairy Tales final. For the rest of us, stumbling into Science Center C at 9:15 in the morning is about as pleasant as being Prince Harry at a Holocaust memorial. You study for hours, yet all you can remember is that song you heard...
What the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) should do is adjust its finals schedule to bring it up to date with the sleep and work habits of its students. And University Hall can do this in a way that doesn’t discriminate against either morning people or late-night people. It should adopt the Wellesley system of final examination in which students have a week-long period during which they can elect to take any final exam for any class within certain hours of the day. Wellesley students simply have to check in with a proctor...