Word: sleeps
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...Sleep with the Fishes A U.S. company, Eternal Reefs, puts remains in a module that mimics a coral reef. The reef balls, which last 500 years, are then dropped into the ocean to create new marine habitats...
...that's precisely the experience members of this group were looking for. To get it, they had plunked down $459 each to ride a snow tractor to the summit and sleep in bunk beds for one of the two dozen or so overnight "Edu-Trips" sponsored each year by the Mount Washington Observatory, a nonprofit organization that's been running a weather station up here since 1932. (Independent hikers can ascend to the summit for free but won't be let indoors at the top unless it's a real emergency.) This weekend's theme was global climate change, with...
...that changed. Shortly before 3 a.m., the U.S. negotiator returned to his hotel room in Beijing with a deal in hand, thanks to arm twisting of North Korea by the Chinese. "They kept us up late," Hill said later. He wasn't the only one losing sleep. His boss, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, phoned him at 4:15 in the morning Washington time to go over final details, checking in with Hill for the 12th time in three days. "He thought he had a tentative agreement," she told reporters Tuesday, "but I called him ... to make sure...
...less likely to die of heart disease than those who pushed through the day without a nap. Michael Irwin, a co-author of the study and psychiatry professor at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience at University of California, Los Angeles, said that there are cardiovascular benefits to getting enough sleep every day. “There is a link between poor sleep and cardiovascular mortality,” said Irwin. “Naps taken during the day were associated with lower cardiovascular mortality.” Irwin said that the study has particularly important repercussions for Americans. Average nightly...
...nearly every dormitory photograph, the beds are immaculate and tightly fitted, with no trace of the orphans, patients, or the itinerants who sleep in them...