Boy, there's some smart researchers at this sleep-disorder center:
THURSDAY, June 12 (HealthDay News) -- Teens whose high schools have a delayed start time sleep longer and report less daytime sleepiness, say researchers at Norwalk Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center in Connecticut.
Who knew?!?!
Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday.
Swell. I'm safe today, but I'll have to watch over my shoulder every Friday 1-12 and 14-31.
He doesn't mince words (pdf file):
America is at war with radical Islamists.
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The game of bait-and-switch that today's opinion plays upon the Nation's Commander in Chief will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.
If you've suspected that sending in the "grief counselors" after every school tragedy might be doing more harm than good, you might have been right:
Now these are some enlightened officials:
DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich., June 9 (UPI) -- City officials in Dearborn Heights, Mich., say they may ban ice cream truck drivers from playing music because residents think it's too loud.
The city council is preparing to pass an ordinance Tuesday, permitting drivers to sound bells only as they are making an ice cream sale, The Detroit News reported.
The overreaction continues:
McDonald's Corp, the world's biggest restaurant chain, has pulled raw sliced tomatoes from its sandwiches and has no immediate plans to bring them back.
There goes my Big N' Tasty. Never mind that only a few types of tomatoes from a few areas are suspect; let's just get rid of all of them of all types from every state in the union from all restaurants and supermarkets.
Oh, well, natural fear reaction, I suppose.
So, after the suck-the-air-out-of-your-lungs heat wave and the hide-in-the-basement thunderstorms and the head-for-high-ground flooding, yesterday afternoon presented us with perfect weather: warm but not hot, low humidity, a slight breeze, white puffs of clouds that threatened to turn into nothing else. If we want that kind of weather more often, we'd have to go to California:
Here's a novel approach -- let everybody be the star:
The stage was set, the lights went down and in a suburban Japanese primary school everyone prepared to enjoy a performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The only snag was that the entire cast was playing the part of Snow White.
Here's a novel approach -- let everybody be the star:
The stage was set, the lights went down and in a suburban Japanese primary school everyone prepared to enjoy a performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The only snag was that the entire cast was playing the part of Snow White.
Pay no attention to that funny-looking dog with the strange bark:
A Fortville couple think town officials are unfairly harassing them over two goats kept in the family's backyard.
Joshua and Sarah Brown keep one of the goats for its milk. The other is a companion for the first goat. Both are female.
