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...remember your PIN or the names of people you meet, try sleeping on it. Researchers at the University of Chicago found that some shut-eye improved recall of memories made during the day. A group of college students was asked to memorize a series of word sounds; some students were tested for their recall after being awake for 12 hours, others after 12 hours of slumber. The latter group was able to recall more words, leading the researchers to speculate that memories are constantly being stored and consolidated. Sleep may be a way memories are rescued...
...certifiable child prodigy, young Davis could sing, dance, tell jokes, improvise, do impressions--"He did it all" would be his epitaph. The older he got the more incandescent his talent became. He was a fireball of energy. He never seemed to sleep. By the 1950s he was cutting albums, making movies, strutting on Broadway and helling around Hollywood with the likes of Tony Curtis and Frank Sinatra...
...clubs have changed since my grandfather’s time. Partly, it’s undergraduate life that has changed: we drink more, go to sleep later and are more often in co-ed situations. Most of the clubs have taken on a kind of fraternity-like role on campus to accommodate these changes. Thus the crux of the problem today: an unhappy marriage between snotty gentleman’s club and modern day pimp hole-in-the-wall. The irony is that many graduates like my grandfather still financially support these clubs. It’s kind of like...
...four-and-a-half-hour marathon, which drew the attention of both baseball fans and those just looking for a party, tested the willingness of Harvard students to forego sleep and work on a Thursday night during midterm season...
...quickly put three runs on the board, Parris just shook his head. “We got time. We got time,” he said, staring at an already overdue Physics problem set. “If they do lose, I’ll cry myself to sleep...