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...which street, which city, which place, then, is home—where my parents are? Where I sleep most nights out of a week...
...anybody. Can't go anywhere." This is Rodriguez's idea of heaven, sitting up all night at two consoles where he writes, edits, designs costumes, dreams up sets and creates digital effects for his films while beyond the moat--O.K., ravine--running across his 63-acre Texas ranch, others sleep. Luckily, the Weinstein brothers at Miramax/Dimension Films are happy for him to work whenever he wants. That's the luxury afforded by being cheap. Rodriguez made the first two Spy Kids movies for a mere $38 million each, even though they featured marquee idols Antonio Banderas and George Clooney...
Since 1992, when the American Academy of Pediatrics launched its Back to Sleep campaign, U.S. rates of sudden infant death syndrome have dropped 40%. But doctors have also seen an increase in flattened heads, a side effect of sleeping on one's back. Prevention is easy, with a few precautions taken in the baby's first few months of life. Doctors suggest alternating the position of the head nightly, to left or right, when putting the infant to bed. Changing the crib's location helps too, so that the baby isn't always peering out the same side. A stretch...
...Algerian-born Bosnian citizen, wrote his wife via the Red Cross on Sept. 13: "I have been at this place day by day without knowing why I am here, how long I am going to stay, and where I am going to go after this. I sit, eat, sleep and do nothing." The indefinite solitary confinement has prompted hunger strikes and 28 suicide attempts. The last time British intelligence agents flew in to question Abbasi, he stayed mum for over an hour - though they couldn't say whether he was stonewalling or mentally disturbed. A mental health facility opened...
...there's one thing they forget to tell you about Antarctica, it's the fact that you won't be getting much sleep there. Time becomes a very elastic concept in summer on the continent?you can expect as much as 20 hours of sunshine a day, and regular markers such as mealtimes will vary according to the weather (for example, if the weather's good around lunchtime, the food will be delayed while you go ashore or do a spot of kayaking...