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...learning to love Minnesota. I've lost my faint Boston accent and I'm droppin' the g's off of most'-ing' words these days. I'm walking to the grocery store and writing a check every time, and they never ask me for ID. My alarm clock is tuned to the local country music station, and I sing along in the shower to those twangy melodies I scorned in high school because I just couldn't wait to get off to the big city...
...study, published last week, showed that the body clock regulating sleep runs on a cycle about 24 hours and 11 minutes long--not 25 hours as scientists previously thought...
...clock had been 25 hours, than it means every day you're going to correct it an hour," said Richard E. Kronauer, a member of the Harvard-MIT division of health sciences and technology and a senior author of the study...
...taking measurements of body temperature and the body chemical melatonin, the scientists discovered that exposing the subjects to even dim light during nighttime hours can reset the human clock, making it difficult to wake up on time in the morning...
About 70 miles east of Pittsburgh, Laurel Highlands is a prison and a nursing home rolled into one for people like Bedarka. For the sickest of the sick, there is the 85-bed long-term-care unit, staffed by 48 nurses around the clock. In a dayroom, half a dozen elderly men gaze at an ancient TV, mesmerized by Judge Judy. Amputees pushing manually operated wheelchairs queue up at the medication counter, where a cheery nurse dispenses pills for diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Nearby, a delusional man rants that State Road 31 is a barrier protecting him from...