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...There are tensions in the field, but "it's starting to break out of its malaise," says Robert Stickgold, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School's Center for Sleep and Cognition. Recently, scientists have abandoned stagnant theories of dreaming and postulated new and intriguing ones, with experiments underway in various parts of the world aimed at establishing the function of our nightly hallucinations. If recent work suggests anything, it's that there is such a function, or more than one, and that dreams aren't just neural waste. They may improve the quality of our sleep. They...
...ratings for the Yomiuri Giants, by far the country's most popular team, are so low that the games are shown on delay, late at night. Younger Japanese are flocking to soccer, which has a hip local league spread out across the country. Pro baseball is seen as stagnant and uncompetitive, clinging blindly to bygone success, which makes it a fittingly miserable metaphor for much of Japanese society--enslaved to tradition as it struggles to break out of years of economic gloom...
...That labor flexibility helped companies make vital cost cuts, and today Japanese corporations are earning record profits while the economy as a whole is in the longest period of sustained growth since World War II. Despite the recovery, however, wages in Japan have remained stagnant. All those companies that cut payroll during the recession years have been slow to add full-time jobs, working their remaining salarymen until they drop and hiring increasing numbers of part-timers to fill...
...good things today,” Harvard coach Katey Stone said. “I still believe we can do some things better…but I’m pleased with our resilience down the stretch.” The Crimson showed that resiliency after two periods of stagnant play left the two teams found themselves tied, 1-1. Stone gave an inspiring speech in the locker room during the intermission, highlighting the need to stop Yale’s momentum in the offensive zone. “I just said, ‘You know what? You want...
...minute we were down by two, the next minute we were down by 12,” said sophomore point guard Drew Housman. “It was us being stagnant on offense, and them being relentless penetrating the ball and hitting some good shots—especially their big guys hit some tough fadeaways...