Word: sleeps
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...Jackson, 1--he hunts far and wide for lodgings that will accommodate them all together at a reasonable cost. Franck, who lives in Jefferson City, Mo., and covers state government for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has taken to sneaking everyone into one motel room, where they sleep three to a bed and partake of the complimentary breakfast in shifts...
...stuff that they've TiVoed, set aside the stuff that's coming in from Netflix, set aside anything that is going on, if you're not doing good enough work to make people think, Oh, there's this movie that I want to see, then you're done. We sleep for eight hours a day; we work for eight hours a day. You have about four hours to entertain yourselves. You have to do something that's going to be interesting enough for someone to say, I'm going to spend my four hours a day watching this movie...
ROBERTS I just want to sign up for that eight hours of sleep. Where do I get on that...
...doesn't welcome the sweet oblivion of a good night's sleep? The sad reality, however, is that a decent slumber is increasingly hard to come by. The average adult sleeps an hour and a half less now compared with more than a century ago, thanks to the Internet, e-mail, cell phones and 24-hour entertainment that all take bites out of the sleep cycle. If you need incentive to put some of those hours back into it, consider this: the amount of sleep you get may endanger your life. That's the conclusion reached by a new study...
...five American children between the ages of 6 and 11 are overweight. Perhaps that statistic doesn’t resound as much as it should—it means that nearly one in five children today are already on track for developing type 2 diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, sleep apnea, and the whole glut of diseases and disorders associated with obesity. If America’s dire obesity epidemic is to be contained, decisive action must be taken in the interest of the public health, starting with policies that encourage children and adolescents to develop healthy habits that will last...