Sleep deprivation is unhealthy for adults but much worse for adolescents whose brains have yet to fully develop. So why are they forced to be at school before sunrise?
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Wellfleet’s secret treasure, Bound Brook Island, has been host to native Americans, sea captains, shore whalers. evangelists, free Blacks fleeing slave catchers, Manhattan Project scientists, and even a judge in the Nuremburg Trials.
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I’m a total skeptic but when these officials presented their new plan for house rich/cash poor empty-nesters to provide housing for working people it made genuine sense.
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Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for A Visit From the Goon Squad. In her latest The Candy House she imagines a world in which everything we ever knew can be known by everyone else.
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Our abilities to make friendships and build community, writes Eric Barker in Plays Well with Others, may well be the meaning of human life. But most of us are pretty bad at it.
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Trouble is, Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weill tells us in her new book Off the Edge, there are more and more of them everyday.
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Think you know how low corporations will stoop to keep unions out? Daisy Pitkin’s On the Line takes us inside the viscous battle to organize laundry workers in Phoenix.
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In The Power Worshippers Katherine Stewart talks about the battle to turn the US into a bible-based religious order putting an end to public assistance, public schools, labor unions, same sex marriage, and racial integration.
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