Word: lag
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Despite concern that giving would lag after the campaign, the UDO is on track to raise money for a number of new University-wide initiatives and specific growth within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The office stayed its course through clearly defined goals and targeted donor appeals...
...free dividend. Early this year 3Com sold 17% of its white-hot Palm unit in an IPO, then gave the rest to shareholders in July. The average carve-out does well. Palm has doubled since July, although it remains below March's mania levels. But parent companies tend to lag in this case (not so 3Com), probably because they have left a sexy business...
...hard enough to remember what to do at 2 a.m. on Oct. 29, when the nation reverts to standard time (hint: "fall back"). But many folks have an even bigger problem. Their internal body rhythm remains so out of synch that for days they experience something akin to jet lag. If this sounds like you, you might try this novel, melatonin-based regimen...
...found that boys and girls on inhaled steroids were much less likely to be rushed to the emergency room or to need treatment with even more powerful drugs. While these kids were indeed about 0.4 in. shorter than children on nonsteroid drugs after the first year of treatment, the lag in growth rates quickly disappeared. Results from the children's X rays indicate there should be no measurable difference in adult height. Similarly, in the second study, of 211 adults from Denmark who started treatment with inhaled steroids as children, researchers found no long-term effect on height...
PERCHANCE TO DREAM For every traveler who ever doubted that melatonin could help jet lag, here's new research confirming that the supplement is one potent pill. High doses were given to blind people who had no ability to perceive light and dark and as a result suffered profound sleep disorders. After just two months, all the patients were sleeping more restfully and returned to normal body rhythms. For melatonin to work for sighted frequent flyers, it must be taken at specific times during the day, depending on which direction they're traveling and how many time zones they cross...