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Some dining hall workers in Pforzheimer-Cabot kitchen slept on couches Saturday night or paid for taxis out of pocket to ensure that they would be available to serve students yesterday...
...experience problems until eight, 10, 12 years later," says Ed Lowry, executive director of the Philadelphia Veterans Multi-Service and Education Center. The VA says it is better prepared than it was 30 years ago to catch people before they fall through the cracks. Brown, for instance, never slept on the streets, and U.S. VETS is helping him with job interviews. But with so many deployed in a war that could be psychologically scarring, homeless shelters are bracing for an influx of returning soldiers. And advocates fret that if the problem grows, resources may not: the federal budget...
...Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln (Free Press; 295 pages) sex researcher C.A. Tripp argues that the four years Lincoln slept in the same bed with his friend Joshua Speed when the two lived in Springfield, Ill., as bachelors far surpassed what was common or necessary. Tripp also cites accounts from Washington wags of that period who noted that the 16th President regularly shared a bed with David Derickson, one of his guards, whenever his wife Mary Todd was out of town. Tripp throws in a handful of other bunkmates, Lincoln's bawdy sense of humor and his stormy relationship with...
...style of the bare-knuckle era, he weaved the way Muhammad Ali would later do. Outside the ring, the handsome, savvy and charismatic Johnson prefigured today's celebrity athletes (and polarizing black stars like Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson). He wore tailored suits, drove custom cars and slept with many women, white women in particular. His boxing wins drew death threats and caused riots, but it was his sex life that most outraged whites, and many blacks. In 1913 he was tried under the Mann Act on charges of transporting a girlfriend across state lines for immoral purposes...
...they don't get eight hours of sleep a night, there's something wrong with them," Siegel says. But in fact, there's more mythology than substance to the eight-hour figure. Back in the 1980s, a survey of more than 1 million people found that those who slept more than 7 1/2 hours a night tended to die a little sooner than their more sleep-deprived counterparts. But there is a wide enough variation in the data that you can't use the results to make any blanket statements about how much any individual should sleep...