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Daylight Saving Time saves energy. That’s why we have it. Most consumers of energy waste daylight by waking up after sunrise and going to bed after sunset; for seven months of the year, Daylight Saving Time recovers an hour of this wasted daylight and allows us to use the sun for an additional hour in the evening, free of charge. For the other five months, it’s a different story. To the delight of petroleum exporters, we burn large quantities of oil to power the light bulbs that keep this country’s homes...
...passages and furious fantasias with his arms whipping up and down the keyboard, using even his fist to bang out a climactic chord. "Scary," marveled jazz pianist D.D. Jackson, who was in the Blue Note audience. So it was, especially for a performer who was up well past his bed-time and who could barely reach the pedals with his favorite blue sneakers. Savage is 11 years...
Hate shots? FluMist, a new alternative vaccine for the influenza viruses that send millions of Americans back to bed every winter, is administered as a nasal spray. Approved by the FDA in June for healthy people ages 5 through 49, it triggers a buildup of antibodies in the upper respiratory tract--flu's favorite point of entry. The catch: FluMist costs three to four times as much as the shot, and most health-insurance companies won't cover it. INVENTORS Hunein Maassab and MedImmune Vaccines AVAILABILITY Now, about $50 a dose TO LEARN MORE flumist.com...
...shelter has room for five women and 20 men per night, and guests must call in the morning to reserve a bed for that night...
...Teflon when stuck with the blame—for finishing the ice cream, for missing a doctor’s visit, for whatever banality it was. In his last week, I am told, my grandmother used a belt as a harness to lift him from wheelchair to bed. Although his mind was failing by then—most of our family had become strangers to him, myself included; few things are more painful—he somehow retained his buck-passing jujitsu. The belt hurt his back, and he was not about to buy my grandmother’s explanation...