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Newswise – One of the biggest complaints that doctors hear is insomnia. A recent poll by the National Science Foundation found that only 50% of Americans get a good night’s sleep a few nights each week. Why do we need to sleep, anyway? Sleep researchers are studying animals in order to figure this out. For instance, they have found birds and reptiles that can put half their brain to sleep while keeping the other half alert to watch for predators. They also want to know how cats can sleep so deeply, yet spring instantly awake. If we could find a medicine that could do that for us, our sleep problems would be over.
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China has become a big capitalistic success and is one of our largest trading partners, supplying all the vast discount outlets in the US, such as Wal-Mart, with most of their goods. But there are more important things in life than just a bargain. Should we use our influence with China to try to change some of the things they DON’T do well?and exactly what are these?
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Newswise – A psychiatrist’s study of the suicide rate in a North Carolina county has revealed that it may be linked to releases of hydrogen sulfide and other airborne chemicals from a nearby paper mill and other industrial sites.

This is the second study to propose a possible link between increased suicide rates in a North Carolina community and chemical exposures from nearby industry. Psychiatrists think that suicides may be triggered by chronic low-level exposure to hydrogen sulfide and other potential neurotoxins released from nearby asphalt plants and petroleum remediation sites.
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Before we invaded Iraq, we accused Saddam Hussein of having chemical weapons, but none have ever been found. Now it turns out that we used them against Iraqi insurgents. We used large amounts of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah in when our forces staged an attack there a year ago. White phosphorus causes deaths and serious burns.
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