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...heart is working at its 3 p.m. rate when the clock hits 3 a.m., it's simply going to wear out faster. In the new study, epidemiologist Jane Ferrie questioned 7,700 British civil servants about their sleep habits over an eight-year period and found that those who slept six to eight hours nightly at the beginning of the study but decreased the amount of rest they got by the end of it increased their risk of dying from heart disease 110%. "When you sleep, your blood pressure drops, your heart rate drops, and the heart doesn't have...
...natural answer to getting too little sleep is to sleep more--perhaps a lot more. But hold on. Ferrie found that short sleepers who slept each night for five hours or less did indeed decrease their overall risk of dying within eight years when they snagged two to three more hours of sleep a night by the end of the study. But once they started piling up too much sleep, crossing the line to nine hours or more daily, the risk of dying--not from heart disease but from other causes--rises the same 110%. Too few subjects in Ferrie...
...actually slept more during the campaign than I normally do,” says Petersen. “They would say, you go to sleep and we’ll handle the budget crisis...
After a few years of growing pains, hard-hitting Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor was finding his footing, both as a new father and a team leader. Then on Nov. 26, as his girlfriend and baby daughter slept, an intruder shot him at home; he died the next day. The Pro Bowler...
Dining halls slept. Lamont was locked. Traffic slowed, sometimes stood still. It was Thanksgiving. In quiet corners across campus, students cultured lab cells and honed hockey shots. A handful of students tried to save the cost of pricey airfares and catch up on neglected work, and got a glimpse of Harvard, moving at a snail’s pace. “Even just walking down Mass. Ave., there were hardly any cars,” said Katharine M. Chute ’11. “It was pretty quiet, and it was kind of nice...