Word: wondering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sleep research doesn't have anything to do with the brain at all. A few years after researchers isolated a natural hormone they called leptin, which tells the brain that the body has enough fatty tissue, Eve Van Cauter and her colleagues at the University of Chicago began to wonder whether sleep deprivation has any effect on the amount of leptin in the blood. They soon discovered that after just a couple of days in which 12 male volunteers were allowed to get only four hours of sleep a night, their leptin levels fell sharply, signaling the brain that...
...wonder that Fallujah is a murderously dangerous city to fight in [Nov. 22]. Killing has become a day-to-day occurrence in Iraq. Saddam Hussein was a ruthless dictator, but at least he controlled the Iraqi people and the level of violence in the country. What is happening now is worse. The Iraqi people are being butchered and dominated by U.S. occupation forces...
While youngsters may wonder who Jean Harlow was (and whether she was as wan and angular as Gwen Stefani plays her), the Turner Classic Movies crowd will enjoy Cate Blanchett's high-pitched impersonation of Hepburn. If you're going to do Kate, do her up grand, lovey. Kate Beckinsale doesn't have the Gardner glow, but her role is mainly nurse to Hughes as he spirals into loopiness...
...sleep clinic. Without the CPAP, I had stopped breathing on average 38 times an hour. I had got absolutely no Stage 4 sleep, the kind that really refreshes your mind and body. With the CPAP machine, I breathed normally, and 17% of my sleep was Stage 4. No wonder I felt better. And that was after only four hours of good sleep...
...sorting out these issues was both exciting and liberating, and I was indebted to my professor for giving me that opportunity. The independence he gave me helped me gain a new degree of confidence in my work and a passion to do it well. But in retrospect, I wonder if I was really qualified. While my fellow students, and especially my professor, were extremely supportive, I myself did not have enough of an understanding of the situation to even ask for the help I really needed...