Word: wakes
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Many of his more than 50 films depicted the rebirth of Italy in the wake of World War II, a theme that director Dino Risi explored with nuance, carefully balancing tragedy and humor. With his breakout film, 1962's Il Sorpasso, about the unlikely friendship between a law student and a gregarious con artist, Risi became one of Italy's most accomplished directors, earning two Oscar nominations for 1974's Profumo di Donna, the tale of a blind war veteran able to distinguish women by their perfume. It was remade in 1992 as Scent of a Woman, starring Al Pacino...
...grassroots heroism in the wake of the earthquake was on an epic scale, and perhaps for the first time in the history of this republic, secrecy was replaced by transparency, and bureaucracy was outpaced by efficiency. The blood-stained backpacks amid the debris of collapsed school buildings were a rude reminder to central government that a more intensive crackdown on multilevel corruption is needed. The Chinese people have empowered themselves through their volunteerism and compassion. However, their lives - and livelihoods - will remain shaky until the authorities truly understand that "Each man's death diminishes me, / For I am involved...
...Amid the raucous partying and the suspense over the impending showdown against Egypt in the tournament final, few noticed that the government had - without a word of discussion on television or in local newspapers - raised gas prices by about 20 cents a gallon. It was only in the depressing wake of Cameroon's loss to Egypt that the full impact of the gas price sank in. "The timing of the fuel prices was very deliberate," says Adam Poumie, who runs a local soccer academy. Even then, few readily understood that the government had chosen to increase prices during the tournament...
...Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Light, the study's authors suspect, works on the body's circadian clock, which is regulated by a cluster of cells in the brain's hypothalamus. Those cells release agents that, along with the hormone melatonin, help to regulate the body's sleep-wake cycle and are responsible for alerting the brain when the cycle is broken - as in the case of jet lag, for example. "With disregulation of the circadian rhythm, there are lots of changes in hormonal status and metabolites in the blood," says Albert. "So you can imagine that would affect cognition...
...never any evidence. A very common problem we see at sleep clinics is people who spend too long in bed. They think they should sleep 8 or 9 hr., so they spend [that amount of time] in bed, with the result that they have trouble falling asleep and wake up a lot during the night. Oddly enough, a lot of the problem [of insomnia] is lying in bed awake, worrying about it. There have been many controlled studies in the U.S., Great Britain and other parts of Europe that show that an insomnia treatment that involves getting...