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May.21.2013 - 7:14 am
Sleep quality seems to be linked to alertness, depression, Alzheimer's, and other interesting facts of life (obesity, hypertension, etc.) that concern sleep-deprived adolescents...
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May.13.2013 - 1:54 pm
After going through various national and international news (some good, some bad) related to Mother's Day (celebrated on the second Sunday of May in the U.S. and in Japan but on...
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May.10.2013 - 3:35 pm
My Japanese brother-in-law (a cultural anthropologist and a linguist who studied Swahili and Kikuyu) once pointed out to me when I was in high school that I should be reading...
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May.09.2013 - 10:18 am
Nellie Bly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly was born on May 5th, 1864 so I would have liked to post this blog four days ago which would have been more timely. Anyway...
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Kim Packard has self-published four distinct works, three books in English and a translation of one of her own books into Japanese, writing under the pen name of Uguïsse, derived from the songbird 'uguisu', known in English-speaking countries as Japanese bush...
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"Autobiography" by John Cowper Powys, "The Ten Foot Square Hut" by Kamo no Chomei,
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