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...intense social activities, including courtship, acclimating to a new environment and fighting over mates and territory. But Shaw found that when flies were genetically bred to be missing the three genes - colorfully named rutabaga, period and blistered - that, among other functions, help regulate sleep, they failed to fall asleep after busy episodes of social activity...
...damned if she stops before I breathe into my feet, let the energy go and give it to her. And I'm trying. I've tried willing my feet to warm up, push out the mojo, even glow. I've tried breathing heavily, meditating, briefly falling asleep. There are crystals on my forehead, my chest, my throat, clutched in both my hands. But Narayan is not satisfied. Eventually she gives up. "Whoa, dude. You put up a fight," she says...
...very surprising. We've been a little bit asleep for 20 or 30 years and we're waking up to the fact that we're not eating food that's really good for us and we're not taking care of the land and the farmers. There's a moral imperative because most children eat at school and the food that they're eating is making them sick. We are willing to put billions and trillions of dollars into things right now and if there's a place of need, it's in the public schools...
...bonuses even after all the legislation Congress has passed to limit compensation to executives of the companies taxpayers have spent trillions of dollars bailing out. The GOP blamed Democratic ineptitude in the rush to pass too many bailouts; Democrats and Republicans alike said the Treasury Secretary Geithner has been asleep at the wheel; and the Obama Administration tried to refocus attention on the consensus point that Wall Street greed is the opposite of good. "In the end, this is a symptom of a larger problem - a bubble and bust economy that valued reckless speculation over responsibility and hard work," President...
...history. On May 9, 1978, Giansanti, then 21 and working for the Sygma photo agency, rushed to the scene in the center of historic Rome, on the Via Michelangelo Caetani, when the body of Aldo Moro was found in the trunk of a Renault, looking as if he were asleep but the victim of a cruel murder. The five time premier of Italy had been kidnapped by the radicals of the Red Brigade and, after 54 days in captivity, executed with 11 gunshots to his heart. Moro had been playing a pivotal mediating role between Italy's Left and Right...