Word: sleeps
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...evidence continues to mount on the health benefits of adequate sleep. A new study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that sleeping less than seven and a half hours a day may be associated with a greater risk for heart disease, particularly for those whose blood pressure spikes overnight...
...Sleep habits have a huge impact on human health," says the study's lead author, Dr. Kazuo Eguchi of Jichi Medical University in Tochigi, Japan. Past studies have linked improper sleep habits - sleeping either too little or too much - to disorders such as obesity and diabetes as well as a higher risk of heart attacks and premature death. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...about four literary critics, three men and one woman, all friends, all European, all of whom are authorities on a mysterious German novelist named Archimboldi, whom none of them have ever met. The four friends go to conferences, talk about Archimboldi, gossip, visit one another, sleep with one another. Eventually, they get a tip that Archimboldi has been seen in a backwater town in northern Mexico called Santa Teresa. Three of them make the trip there in search...
...tirade about how that’s a violation of Harvard rules —and more importantly, a violation of... well... any semblance of common sense. After all, what would I do with Billy on those late nights studying in Lamont? What about my propensity to sleep past my alarm clock —how would I have time to walk him in the morning? I mean, Lindsay, c’mon?...
While the rest of you may not be getting the most personal academic experience, remember that at least you can show up to Ec 10 thirty minutes late, not having done a page of the reading, and sleep for the last half—and Mankiw won’t have a clue...