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...airplanes landing, motorcycles roaring or a bedmate snoring can make for patchy sleep and strained nerves. But even when you manage to slumber through a rackety night, your body still registers the noise by raising blood pressure, according to a small new study...
Harvard’s Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) and elementary school slumber parties now share something in common—no boys allowed. As of Jan. 28, only women can enter the Quad’s primary athletic facility on Mondays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. “It’s an experimental situation we’re trying out,” says Jeremy L. Gibson, associate director of athletics. “We tried to target times that were less utilized by others...
...doesn’t; there are too many visual cues that tell us, “This is just a movie, this is just like any other movie.” We are suspended in the painless world of continuity editing—nothing dare disturb us from our slumber. How can the Hollywood orthodoxy of eyeline matches and the hackneyed methods of portraying space, continuous diagetic sound, and re-establishing shots (in short, everything that makes a movie feel slick and unreal) ever shake an adult audience as deeply as the subject matter calls for? When Washington?...
...begin the laborious process of establishing a global climate plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Big business is on board - on Nov. 30 the leaders of 150 top firms released a petition calling on governments to establish mandatory caps on carbon emissions. Washington is finally awakening from its slumber, with Congress hammering out the first increase in auto fuel economy standards since 1984, and with the first real piece of climate-change legislation - a bill sponsored by Senators John Warner and Joseph Lieberman - ready for a vote in the Senate...
Research has long documented that people may pay for shorter slumber with a shorter life span. Sleep is the body's opportunity to rest and repair what the day has wrought, and if your 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...