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Episode V: Dartboard Strikes Back When Dartboard awoke after sleeping a deep slumber, Dartboard opened her eyes to a new world—a whole year had passed by. “What happened?” Dartboard thought. Without Dartboard, who had commented on sexual shower escapades, the loss of “Super-Size,” a party shuttle to the Quad, or, most importantly, Brian C.W. Palmer ’86 stealing Dartboard’s pizza? No one, Dartboard thought, through an all-encompassing depression. Dartboard had failed—failed so completely that many...
...used to being chronically sleep deprived--and have become so adept at coping with that condition--that we no longer notice how exhausted we really are. In 2003, sleep expert David Dinges and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine tested the effects of restricting slumber to eight, six or four hours a night for two weeks. During the first few days, subjects sleeping less than eight hours admitted to being fatigued and lacking alertness. But by Day 4, most people had adapted to their new baseline drowsiness and reported feeling fine--even as their cognitive performance continued...
Then came Donato’s bench minor, Morissette’s goal, and the chanting by the crowd. And that’s what it seemed to take to rouse the Crimson from its slumber, as Harvard finished the third period with 17 shots and two late goals to its credit...
...organization I’d change in a heartbeat, late night hours that I’d love to reclaim. But even when I escape the building at 4 a.m., cursing “bloody Crimson” on the bleak walk home, it only takes some recovered slumber for me to remember how astounding this place...
...Australians begin to reflect on the racial bigotry exposed at Cronulla, it can only be hoped that nation will finally awake from its slumber of small-mindedness. Over the last 30 years Australia has begun to develop a vibrant multicultural society, diversifying politics and culture while paving the way for integration into Asia. As Australia increasingly globalizes it must shed the ignorant roots of intolerance and embrace the multiplicity of nationalities already within its borders. If the North Cronulla riots are not incentive enough for change, then Australia risks a future plagued by disunity and disgruntled reaction to the faux...