Word: wakefulness
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...which oversees the common currency in the 15-nation Euro zone, slashed its main lending rate three quarters of a percentage point to 2.5%, following two half percentage point cuts in October. Since credit markets are all but locked up in the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September, the ECB has ratcheted down its main lending rate by a total of 1.75 percentage points. (Read " Will Europe's Bank Bailout Plan Really Work...
...assure you, Senator, that I don't wake up every morning thinking about how to sell the company. We're busting our guts and the people who are left there are busting their guts to make this thing work," Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli argued back. At another point in the hearing, Nardelli told Dodd that the weakest of the Big Three can survive alone and that $7 billion is all it will need "to avoid, Mr. Chairman, having to come back and again ask you for support." Utah's Bennett broached the idea of Congress writing into any package...
...drug, tasimelteon, works by mimicking the effects of the naturally occurring hormone melatonin, which has long been identified as the regulator of the body's sleep and wake patterns. In Phase II and III clinical trials of 450 people who were subjected to simulated jet lag in a sleep laboratory (participants were forced to go to bed at 6 p.m. and wake up at 2 a.m.), a team from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston found that the new drug restored near normal sleep the first night it was used. In one arm of the study, participants taking...
Ideally, Saturday would have been the day that the Harvard men’s soccer team celebrated a victory in the third round of the NCAA Tournament and began its preparations for No. 1 University of Wake Forest in the quarterfinals.But No. 8 University of South Florida had other ideas for the Crimson, ending Harvard’s season last Tuesday in the second round.There was still some good news to come out of Saturday, however, as junior forward Andre Akpan was named as a semi-finalist for the Hermann Trophy, the most prestigious individual award in men?...
Whenever terrorism rears its head in India, it has probably left its tail in Pakistan. Or so seems the knee-jerk instinct of many Indians. But in the wake of last week's Mumbai terrorist attacks, that sentiment may be, in this instance, correct. Ongoing investigations by Indian police - helped in part by the capture of the sole surviving terrorist, 21-year-old Pakistani Ajmal Amir Kasab - suggest that the attacks may have been conceived and carried out primarily by Pakistanis, with the backing of noted terrorist organizations acting within Pakistani territory. This is a revelation that will surprise...