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...human to human to human. The cluster likely began with a 37-year-old woman who hosted a family pork roast on April 29 in the Indonesian village of Kubu Sembilang in north Sumatra. The woman had become sick on April 27, and as she worsened, several family members slept in the same small room as she did. By the first week of May six more members of the family had fallen ill with avian flu. The first woman died on May 4 and was buried before any tissue samples could be taken, but doctors were able to confirm H5N1...
...with an amphetamine-like stimulant that can improve focus and mask symptoms of fatigue, providing an unfair advantage on exams far beyond what caffeine offers. I, for one, become very jealous of my Adderall abusing peers when I attempt to take an exam exhausted and bleary eyed, having not slept for 24 hours. Aside from being unfair, it can also, like steroids, pose health problems to those that use it. A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee recently voted in favor of putting warning labels on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drugs such as Adderall akin to those on cigarette...
People who took melatonin supplements, researchers found, slept significantly longer than the placebo group, but only in periods of sleep that occurred during the volunteers' biological day--that is, when their bodies were not producing natural melatonin. During the sleep cycles that happened to fall at night in real time, when melatonin is already being released by the brain, taking an extra dose of the hormone worked no better than taking a placebo. "It seems that what melatonin is doing," says Wyatt, "is knocking out the wake-promoting drive, which normally happens during the day, from your circadian clock...
...average, melatonin users had a daytime sleep efficiency of at least 83%--meaning they slept 83% of the time they spent in bed--compared with 77% in the placebo group. That translates to an extra half an hour of shut-eye--relatively comparable to what one gets with a prescription sleep aid like Ambien or Lunesta...
...Zarqawi's attempt to mimic the sirah, or lifestyle, of the Prophet. Those who have seen al-Zarqawi in the past year say he constantly uses the written histories of the Prophet's life, known collectively as the Hadith, to copy the way he spoke, sat, walked, ate and slept, even the way he brushed his teeth (the Prophet is recorded as having used the twigs of a particular bush). He has taken to using musk-scented oils and requiring his closest aides to be similarly anointed because Islamic history says the Prophet favored those traditional Arabic perfumes...