Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson seemed to be cruising to yet another tournament win, until the weather added some unfriendly complications. With the Harvard golfers on the back nine, the course was deemed unplayable due to puddles of standing water on the greens. The round was halted, and the Crimson players went to sleep Saturday night unsure of what was to come Sunday. When the players came to the tee the following morning, they were informed that the first round scores had been wiped out and the tournament had been adjusted to a single round. “It’s natural...
...executive vice president is still plugged into events at Harvard. “He’s still completely engaged here,” she said. “He calls me at 11 at night from the Treasury Department, and he doesn’t get any sleep.” Still, Faust added, plans for potential administrative reorganization—such as whether to keep the vice president for finance position—may be on hold until the crisis abates. “That decision has not been made yet and it may be postponed slightly...
...still completely engaged here," she said. "He calls me at 11 at night from the Treasury Department and he doesn't get any sleep...
...another matter entirely. This kind of decision making has less to do with the frontal lobe than with the pineal gland at the base of the brain. As nighttime approaches and daylight recedes, the pineal gland produces melatonin, a chemical that signals the body to begin shutting down for sleep. Studies by Mary Carskadon at Brown University have shown that it takes longer for melatonin levels to rise in teenagers than in younger kids or in adults, regardless of exposure to light or stimulating activities. "The brain's program for starting nighttime is later," she explains...
...father of an individual who had been declared a fugitive from the law. Telephone conversations are, in any case, inadmissible as evidence under Burmese law, but the law offers scant protection for those who challenge military rule in Burma." She also noted that Win Tin was kept without sleep and interrogated non-stop for his first three days in prison. "A man of courage and integrity, Win Tin would not be intimidated into making false confessions," she wrote...