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...year-old ewe, had cells whose telomeres were closer in length to those of her biological mother than to those of a baby lamb. We will never know, though, whether her shortened telomeres would have shortened her life. In 2003 Wilmut and his team decided to put Dolly to sleep after she developed lung cancer caused by a viral infection common among sheep. An autopsy revealed that she was otherwise normal...
...well-regarded Penn State University study published in 1996. Later research, published last year, found that even adolescents, who have usually begun going their own way, devote at least 10 hours a week to activities with their siblings--a lot when you consider that with school, sports, dates and sleep, there aren't a whole lot of free hours left. In Mexican-American homes, where broods are generally bigger, the figure tops 17 hours...
...Sleep Sack REI's Kindercone, $59, is designed for kids, with pockets for toys and a flashlight as well as extra clothes--which then make a cozy pillow. The insulated bag can be unzipped and opened flat so you can also use it as a quilt...
...want to sleep.' Get up and vote...
...Teacher of General (and indefinable) Studies, the character Hector draws heavily from Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society”; an old-fashioned academic armed with the appropriate quotations for any circumstance. He does not lose sleep over the students’ struggle to again admission to Oxbridge, as he considers testing (and education itself) an enemy of true education. As the hatefully pragmatic principal describes, Hector’s contribution to the students’ characters is “unquantifiable, and thus purposeless in education...