| the sleep deprived may get a rude awakening
You know those go-getters who say, "I'll sleep when I'm dead?" Well, if they continue to put off sleep, they may reach the grave sooner than they think.Just like not flossing your teeth or refusing to exercise, depriving yourself of sleep can lead to serious health consequences. The latter includes obesity, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes - not to mention quality-of-life issues, such as migraines, depression, irritability, memory problems and poor work performance.Staying up all night to surf the Internet and then driving is as irresponsible as downing several beers before getting into your car. The government estimates that sleepy drivers cause up to 1,550 crash-related deaths a year. Like drunken drivers, sleepy drivers are distracted, have poor reaction times and tend to react more aggressively.Lack of sleep also has been linked to death by heat exhaustion.
Lucille Ball Returns from Dead to Call Prince's Music "Crap ...
"You call that crap music? I've heard Ashlee Simpson bark out better stuff on the wrong side of an acid reflux aspiration," the feisty redhead snapped. This after Lucille Ball was approached earlier today by reporters alleging Super Bowl halftime show personality, Prince, had "stolen her look". They were of course referring to a particularly unflattering headwrap graced towel-like over the singer's head for most of last night's performance. In a well attended interview, Lucy, from her side of the Pearly Gates, fielded questions from reporters and other hopefuls yearning to catch a few one liners from the former comedy goddess. "Tell us Lucy," someone in the crowd yelled, "what was worse, his music or the headwrap?" "What the hell was that all about? He looked like death warmed over. And believe me, I know what I'm talking about," she riposted, gesturing at a few of the newly arrived corpses behind her.
Babies excessive crying may signal later problems
ISLAMABAD: Healthy infants older than three months who cry incessantly for no apparent reason may be at risk for lower IQ and behaviour problems in their childhood years, new study findings suggest.
Such persistent, uncontrollable crying seems to be a very good indicator of potential risk, says Dr. Malla Rao of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
As such, Rao said, parents should not simply dismiss their childs crying as being due to gastrointestinal problems such as heartburn or colic, but should notify their childs paediatrician.
At younger ages, excessive crying among otherwise healthy babies is usually described as infantile colic, a common condition that affects up to 40 percent of babies, according to various reports.
China's Space-Attack Test
After several attempts, the People's Republic of China has successfully tested an anti-satellite weapon. The kinetic-energy "kill vehicle" destroyed its target - one of Beijing's own aging weather satellites - orbiting over 500 miles above Earth. This is bad news. For starters, it calls into question China's mantra that its unprecedented military buildup is for self-defense, that its rise to world power will be peaceful. It's a threat to no one - and it will only use space for peaceful purposes. Not surprisingly, after the Jan. 11 test was confirmed late last week, the United States, Japan, Britain, Canada and Australia all condemned the Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) missile launch. A White House National Security Council spokesman said last Thursday: "The U.S. believes China's development and testing of such weapons is inconsistent with the spirit of cooperation that both countries aspire to in the civil space arena." So why is the Chinese KT-2 "satellite-killer" launch - the first ASAT test since America and the Soviet Union conducted tests in the 1980s - causing so much "final frontier" heartburn? Well, for a lot of good reasons - at least from an American perspective: * The missile test, launched from the Xichang Space Center in central China, was unannounced and appeared to have taken place without the prior consultation of other countries with space-based assets, such as the United States.
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