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...Senator John McCain, a torture survivor from his days as a captive during the Vietnam War, says his private comments about harsh interrogation methods were misrepresented by the Bush Administration in a recently released legal document intended to justify a six-day course of sleep deprivation for one CIA detainee in November 2007. (See TIME's photos: "Do-It-Yourself Waterboarding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: McCain Denies Giving O.K. to a CIA Torture Tactic | 8/31/2009 | See Source »

...headstrong - it was difficult for me now," he says, laughing. On his nearly 30,000-mile (48,000 km) journey, Perham subsisted on freeze-dried food and faced large waves, high winds and equipment failures. Along with the physical strain, he faced mental exhaustion brought on by isolation and sleep deprivation. At one point, he even had to turn off his tracking device when he reached pirate-infested waters to avoid being followed, as did the former holder of the title of youngest solo around-the-world sailor, American Zac Sunderland (who was older than Perham by several months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is 13 Too Young to Sail Around the World Solo? | 8/28/2009 | See Source »

Researchers who are familiar with the drug were just as stunned. "No one would ever take this to sleep. No one would ever take this drug for insomnia," says Paul E. Wischmeyer, professor of anesthesiology at the University of Colorado, who co-authored a major 2007 study on propofol abuse. "Never, ever. It would be like using a shotgun to kill a small mouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jackson's Death: How Dangerous Is Propofol? | 8/25/2009 | See Source »

Intramural crew: 1. The sport of participants who wake up when everyone else is going to sleep. 2. Legitimate excuse for making a general mockery of your senior spring coursework (see Extension...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

Reading Period: 1. Amount of time you have to read a semester’s worth of text and write four 30-page papers. 2. Best time of the year to party and sleep in, unless you have introductory language courses, which continue to meet...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dictionary of Harvardisms | 8/24/2009 | See Source »

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