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...parents) assumed that night-owl adolescents were either being rebellious or pressured by friends. But a study of 458 sixth-graders, controlled for some social factors, found that students who were more physically mature chose to go to bed later than those just entering puberty. The same students also slept later on weekends than their prepubescent peers. The conclusion: puberty's biological changes may trigger an adjustment in kids' internal clocks, keeping them alert till the wee hours. Next hypothesis: it's hormones that make teens gab endlessly on the phone...
Martin says he had a severe reaction, collapsed to the floor and couldn't open his eyes. A day and a half later he was able to go home where he says he slept for three days...
...learn the true story of her grandfather, which he had recorded in coded diaries. Jonathan Carrick had been a "boughten boy," indentured when he was four for $15 to an ice-hearted tobacco farmer named Alvah Stoke. Dickensian is too amiable a word for Jonathan's ordeals. He slept on a dirt floor with the animals. He was horsewhipped and chained after he tried to run away. One night Alvah and a traveling salesman subdued Jonathan and with a copper wrench pulled all his teeth, which could be sold abroad for $2 each...
When word came of a possible evacuation, Merima and her brothers trekked through the snow to Srebrenica. "We slept on the street around fires for five days," she says, showing her blackened palms as proof. They managed to procure some food aid parachuted out of U.S. airplanes by rushing to the drop sites with thousands of other hungry refugees. But that soon ran out. "For the past three days we didn't eat anything. It was like we were in the forests again except we were in a town, in front of U.N. soldiers...
...first U.N. trucks finally lumbered into Srebrenica, Merima and her brothers slept close by to assure themselves a spot. Now safe in Tuzla, Merima studied a sandwich and an orange that have been plopped into her soot-stained hands by an aid worker, not quite sure whether to admire them or eat them. Her brothers puzzle over jars of British baby food. "We haven't seen such things in almost a whole year -- chocolate, oranges, real bread," says Merima. "We've been living in a different world. Before the war we wouldn't even think about bread...