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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...With all the work you do, from Ashoka Chair, to other nonprofits like Community Greens, to changing the world, how do you find time to sleep...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Bill Drayton ’65 | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...vampires are dangerous. Of course we are scared," says her neighbor Alberdina del Carmen Reyes, whose rustic wood-plank shanty is filled with gaps big enough for the flying mammals to sneak through during the night. Reyes' 5-year-old granddaughter was attacked in her sleep several weeks ago and awoke to a similarly gory scene in her bed. "The government tells us to cover our beds with mosquito nets at night," says Reyes, "but we don't have the money to buy them." Many of the impoverished families in this countryside community of Llano Grande 2, Masaya, have similar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua's Vampire Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...shrill scream from the next bedroom jolted Maria Felix Flores from her sleep shortly after midnight on the muggy, tropical night of Feb. 22. She dashed into the adjoining room to find her adult son Carlos and his wife Maria Josefa sitting upright in bed with the lights on, panicked by the sight of their blood-drenched sheets. (Read "Could There be Real Monster Bats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nicaragua's Vampire Problem | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

...less monetary compensation in a lab setting when they are anchored prior to the experiments to smaller monetary amounts. As I said, we all make dumb choices based on silly information. That's why we invest meaning in dreams. (See TIME's 2004 cover on the science of sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Dreams Mean Less Than We Think | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

...rgen Bernsee, 66, has lived in the same house in Prenzlauer Berg since 1970. The retired electrician, who now works at a local community center, has experienced the rapid change of his neighborhood firsthand. He talks about how suddenly young academics and artists, "people who like to sleep in in the morning," many of them from the West, began flocking to the formerly working-class-dominated neighborhood. Unlike Stefanel-Stoffel, he's not shocked by the recent outbreak of vandalism - despite the fact that only a few weeks ago, a car was set alight right outside his window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Berlin, a Gentrifying Neighborhood Under Siege | 2/25/2009 | See Source »

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