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Hall spent the night in a lab with electrodes attached to her head as part of a sleep study. She was woken up periodically throughout the night so that those observing her could administer cognitive tests...
...Each year the Nobel Prize winners stay at a hotel in Stockholm overnight," Lidskog said. "In the early morning, they are woken up by that year's win- ner of the Swedish Santa Lucia Pageant...
...Radcliffe hasn't been providing women with an education for several years," Avery says. "It's role has diminished at the same time that Harvard has woken up to the realization that there are women in its environment, and that it should provide an inclusive environment...
Granted, not everyone lives on student-standard time. And the truth is, if she called me at 3:15 in the afternoon she might have woken me as well. In fact, it would probably have been a better bet to call me during Hong Kong business hours (the country or the restaurant) than during Eastern-Standard working hours...
...United States occupied Okinawa until 1972 - 20 years after leaving the rest of Japan. Kunii says rapes were common during the occupation, but were covered up by the military. "This has been a source of contention on Okinawa since before 1972," Kunii says. "The rest of Japan has now woken up to the problem of occupation, and that has Hashimoto worried." Of the 32,000 landowners with plots used by the U.S. military on Okinawa, 2,937 are refusing to renew their leases, affecting about 10 percent of the land. The landowners have the support of local authorities, including Okinawa...