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Perhaps the most insidious consequence of skimping on sleep is the irritability that increasingly pervades society. Weariness corrodes civility and erases humor, traits that ease the myriad daily frustrations, from standing in supermarket lines to refereeing the kids' squabbles. Without sufficient sleep, tempers flare faster and hotter at the slightest offense...
...home is a five-bedroom, neo-Georgian house in the suburb of Dulwich, about four miles from central London. Thatcher's daughter Carol predicts that her mother "will suffer decompression" out of office. When, for example, Carol reminded her parent that she had not set foot in a supermarket in nearly 12 years, Thatcher replied, "Of course I have. I have opened enough of them...
Responding to American consumers' voracious appetite for fish, scientists are busy experimenting with halibut, one of the mysterious giants of the deep and a staple of the supermarket frozen-food section. In its ocean domain, this monster grows to 400 lbs. or more and cruises for up to 40 years. It is ugly too; during maturation the skull of the halibut twists, moving one eye to the opposite side and giving the beast -- naturally enough -- a grotesquely pained look. Well, its sufferings are over. Aquaculturists, again in Norway, have produced a dwarf version, at a mere 15 lbs., that takes...
...when Caesars Palace sent a luxurious Learjet to fly Brian ("Bo") Bennett to Las Vegas, he must have marveled at how his lot in life had changed. Only three years earlier the youth from the downtrodden ghetto of South Central Los Angeles was stocking shelves in a supermarket. Now, at 23, he was off on the kind of fling casinos reserve for the highest rollers...
...controversy centers on a seemingly minor issue: Should Saudi women be allowed to drive their own cars? Two weeks ago, 47 women, most of whom had obtained a driver's license while living abroad, gathered in a supermarket parking lot, dismissed their chauffeurs and then drove themselves in an orderly procession through downtown Riyadh...