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Despite official assurances to the contrary, the chances of the students' getting a fair trial are considered remote. While the Chinese constitution guarantees a defendant's right to a public trial and a lawyer, the reality can be quite different. Often a verdict is reached before a case goes to court, and access to courtrooms is restricted to those holding government-issued tickets. Hou Xiaotian, 27, Wang's wife, expresses the hopelessness shared by the detainees' friends and families when she says, "I feel tiny and weak, as insignificant as a droplet of water in the sea. When I call...
That may sound like an attractive exchange, but scientists are increasingly making the case that forgoing rest is a foolish and often perilous bargain. In fact, evidence is mounting that sleep deprivation has become one of the most pervasive health problems facing the U.S. Researchers have not proved conclusively that losing sleep night after night directly causes physical illness, but studies show that mental alertness and performance can suffer badly. "Sleepiness is one of the least recognized sources of disability in our society," declares Dr. Charles Pollak, head of the sleep-disorder center at Cornell University's New York Hospital...
...Harrowing tales are told by interns and residents, many of whom routinely work 120-hour weeks, including 36 hours at a stretch. Some admit that mistakes are frighteningly common. A California resident fell asleep while sewing up a woman's uterus -- and toppled onto the patient. In another California case, a sleepy resident forgot to order a * diabetic patient's nightly insulin shot and instead prescribed another medication. The man went into a coma. Compassion can also be a casualty. One young doctor admitted to abruptly cutting off the questions of a man who had just been told...
...most surprising recent discoveries concerns the sleep needs of adolescents. For years they were urged to get eight hours, the same as adults. No longer. Teenagers appear to require more than 9 1/2 hours. Carskadon found that to be the case when she studied a group of children every summer for seven years, from the time they were ages 10 to 12 until they turned 17 to 19. During the experiments, the youngsters got 9 1/2 hours of sleep each night. In the beginning years of the study, they experienced no problems during the day, but after they reached puberty...
...should not be the world's policeman." Perhaps not. But in this case that is an unfair charge. While American troops comprise a vast majority of the force in the Gulf, the United Nations has been abundantly clear in its support of the deployment of those troops, issuing a dozen separate resolutions calling for Saddam's withdrawal from Kuwait and authorizing the use of force...