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Morbidity [or sickness] is also "U-shaped" in the sense that both very short sleep and very long sleep are associated with many illnesses-with depression, with obesity-and therefore with heart disease-and so forth. But the [ideal amount of sleep] for different health measures isn't all in the same place. Most of the low points are at 7 or 8 hr., but there are some at 6 hr. and even at 9 hr. I think diabetes is lowest in 7-hr. sleepers [for example]. But these measures aren't as clear as the mortality data...
...U-HALL PARTY PLANNERS
...Harvard Student Agencies, Inc. (HSA) was founded by then-Director of Financial Aid John U. Monro ’34-’35, who envisioned a means of opening the University to all students regardless of financial need. The private, non-profit organization chartered in Dec. 1957 would provide an opportunity for students to defray the cost of attending the College...
...Palestine Investment Conference, which furnishes the opening scene of Mike's revealing and insightful portrait of Blair in this week's issue. During our interview the next day, Blair, who has been working as the special envoy to the Middle East of the U.S.-Russia-European Union-U.N. "Quartet" of powers, was eloquent in arguing why globalization has made the need for an interfaith dialogue more important than ever. At the same time, for someone who is starting a global interfaith initiative and who is deeply religious, he is curiously reticent in talking about his own faith. As Mike...
...center of the crowd-trim, smiling and looking a lot more relaxed than he did a year ago, when he resigned as Britain's Prime Minister after 10 years at the post-was Tony Blair, the special envoy to the Middle East of the U.S.-Russia-European Union-U.N. "Quartet" of powers...