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...book's editor, the force behind the volume is Tolkien's son Christopher, who spent the last 30 years collecting and synthesizing the fragments and binding them into a seamless narrative, one that will make Hurin accessible both to casual readers and to those who speak Elvish in their sleep. Christopher Tolkien has long been a caretaker and editor of his father's work. Exceedingly close to his father growing up, he became the keeper of all things hobbit upon J.R.R.'s death in 1973. This is not the first J.R.R. Tolkien book that Christopher has had a hand...
People joke a lot about snoring and insomnia, but they're no laughing matter. In fact, they are just the opposite, according to a new study exploring the relationship between sleep-related breathing disorders and clinical depression...
...research, which was also published in last week's Archives of Internal Medicine, was part of the large Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study, which has tracked the sleep patterns of more than 1,400 men and women since 1988. The subjects are brought into a lab every four years for a full evaluation of their sleep habits. Having undergone one of those overnight polysomnographies, I can tell you that they are no fun. Researchers attach little electrical leads all over your body-including your eyelids-to measure brain activity, eye and muscle movement, leg movement, airflow, chest and abdominal movement, heart...
...them, The Science of Sleep, stars a major-minor international star - the very attractive Gael Garcia Bernal - and is directed by the annoyingly twee Michel Gondry, who somehow won a screenwriting Oscar for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in 2005, not to mention the hearts of audiences who forgave his vertiginous descents into near-terminal cuteness because the movie's imagery has a certain freshness...
...June 5. The night of the Senior Soiree, Thomas broke down the door of his ex-girlfriend’s dorm in Currier before falling asleep on the floor. Witnesses say that senior fullback Mike Lucas told them that Thomas was “quite drunk and needed to sleep it off.” When the woman returned to her room, she awoke Thomas and an altercation followed. According to the police report, witnesses told police they saw Thomas “strangling [the victim] with one hand” on the bed. After the witnesses yelled...