Word: less
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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While voter participation would seem to logically decrease with less competition, the paltry turn-out raised eyebrows for some...
...million war chest also dwarfs the resources of Robinson, who has raised less than $50,000 and plans to spend only $200,000 of his own money...
...recent report on National Public Radio presented scientific evidence proving that the brain learns less effectively when a person has had too little sleep. This is something that, deep down, we all know; but we suppress the knowledge, and pride ourselves on scraping by in a state of sleep-deprivation. But every Harvard student, and every member of the Harvard faculty, should pause to consider the implications: as members of a scholarly community it is our business to learn, all the time; but if we know how we could learn better...
...survive the occasional short night with no ill-effects. But let's be clear about the consequences of systematically depriving ourselves of sufficient sleep. It is not only our capacity to concentrate and absorb information that suffers. So do our inter-personal relationships, since tired people tolerate one another less easily. We run the risk of permanent disruption in our sleep patterns, i.e. chronic insomnia. We put ourselves under sustained and cumulative stress that can lead to physical and psychological collapse. If we drive in a state of exhaustion, we may pose a danger to others equal to that...
...have most of the less sophisticated Napster users blocked at Indiana University, but there are probably those who are savvy enough to find a way around the filters we put in place," he said...