Helaine Olen: Fantasy politics for Democratic moderates (Washington Post)
moderates refuse to admit a fundamental truth. The legislative and policy fixes they propose have little more chance of getting enacted in this environment than legislation proposing sweeping changes. Should one of the candidates selling the go-it-slow cooperative line make it to the White House, they will likely end up with a lot of explaining to do to voters when it turns out getting along and making deals with the other side wasn't as easy as they made it sound.
Garrison Keillor: Where have you gone, Dave Barry, and why?
I miss the old days when newspapers used to publish humor columns, like Dave Barry's - why did he go away? In Dave's column, you learned things the New York Times didn't print, stuff about exploding badgers or a man with a blade of grass growing out of his ear, or a story about the amount of methane created annually by dairy cows. Dave pointed out the fact that men will never ask for directions and that this is a biological fact, which is why it takes several million sperm to find one female egg even though, compared to them, it is the size of Wisconsin. I laughed so hard at that, I almost coughed up a hairball.
Jeffrey Himes: "The Curmudgeon: Taylor Swift and the Path of Bruce Springsteen" (Paste Magazine)
This point can't be stressed enough: Pop music is at its best not when it provides insights about the artist but when it provides insights about the listener. Only when Swift grasps that concept will she be able to fully realize her potential. If she began to further explore the many lives around her and not just her own, her knack for melody and lyric could mean so much more.
Jim Vorel: "The Best Horror Movie of 2008: Let the Right One In" (Paste Magazine)
This is an overall decent year, although it's hard for it to compare to the one that preceded it, which was abnormally packed with quality. Indie and international films are largely leading the way here, with Let the Right One In as the easy, slam-dunk choice for the #1 spot.
Jim Vorel: "The Best Horror Movie of 2009: The House of the Devil" (Paste Magazine)
More than anything, though, The House of the Devil is genuinely pulse-raising-a horror film with the principal intent of actively scaring its audience, not through the use of stab chords and a constant barrage of jump scares, but via the slow building of dread and the sense of inescapable, slowly advancing doom. It's a voyeuristic sort of experience that alternatingly makes the audience feel like spectators from the outside in, peering through the windows of this old house at a young woman we're sure is in some kind of peril, or active participants in her increasingly frantic explorations. West ultimately achieves a singular sense of isolation, as if this house were on the dark side of the moon, rather than simply down a dark country road. It's clear that no help will be arriving for this young woman-she is well and truly alone in this fight, and so are we.
Nicholas Barber: Terminator Dark Fate Review (BBC)
there was a devilishly simple science-fiction / horror movie premise. Keep that simplicity in the later sequels and what you get is essentially an inferior remake. Complicate the mythology and you lose the first films' white-knuckle intensity. The makers of Terminator Dark Fate went for the former option - the inferior remake - and the results aren't bad. But if that's the best they can come up with, then why bother? This franchise needs to be terminated.
Marieke Vervoort: Paralympian ends life through euthanasia at age of 40 (BBC)
Vervoort, who won gold and silver at the London 2012 Paralympics, and two further medals at Rio 2016, had an incurable degenerative muscle disease. Euthanasia is legal in Belgium and in 2008 Vervoort signed papers which would one day allow a doctor to end her life. A statement from her home city of Diest said Vervoort "responded to her choice on Tuesday evening".
Two older gentlemen, Frank and Ed, sat on a front porch and related their new discoveries or projects. Frank did all the talking, and ended each commercial with the tagline, "... and thank you for your support". What product was being sold in these folksy TV commercials that ran from 1984 to 1991?
This song about an actress's facial features was Billboard's biggest hit of 1981 and also won the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. What is the title of this song?
"Bette Davis Eyes" is a song written and composed by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, and made popular by American singer Kim Carnes. DeShannon recorded it in 1974; Carnes's 1981 version spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was Billboard's biggest hit of 1981.
The Carnes version spent nine non-consecutive weeks on top of the US Billboard Hot 100 (interrupted for one week by the "Stars on 45 Medley") and was Billboard's biggest hit of the year for 1981. The single also reached No. 5 on Billboard's Top Tracks charts and No. 26 on the Dance charts. The song won the Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and Record of the Year. The song was also a number one hit in 21 countries and peaked at number 10 in the United Kingdom, her only Top 40 hit there to date. It also reached number two in Canada for twelve consecutive weeks, and was the No. 2 hit of 1981 in the country.
Actress Bette Davis, then 73 years old, wrote letters to Carnes, Weiss, and DeShannon to thank all three of them for making her "a part of modern times," and said her grandson now looked up to her. After their Grammy wins, Davis sent them roses as well.
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Dave responded:
Betty Davis Eyes. Kim Carnes' cover of a 1974 Donna Weiss/Jackie DeShannon song was Carnes' only #1 Billboard Top 100 hit. 73 year old Betty Davis was delighted by the attention and her acting career revived until age and ill health slowed her down. Maybe her 5 pack a day cigarette addiction didn't help? Today Kim Carnes is about the same age as Betty Davis was in 1981. No longer singing professionally, Carnes was living in Nashville and writing songs as of 2017.
Photos: Although she wasn't conventionally beautiful, Bette Davis' prodigious talent kept her in great demand during Hollywood's golden age- she was the very definition of a 'Movie Star' | During the '80s Kim Carnes was very successful in record sales.
zorch replied:
Bette Davis Eyes, by Kim Carnes.
David of Moon Valley wrote:
it's early, almost covfefe time, and my own eyes are just opening...i'm WAGing Bette Davis Eyes by What's-Her-Name...Kim Something-Or-Other....
off topic but still relevant...Have we impeached that fucker yet? and if not, why not?!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, said:
bette davis eyes
Deborah answered:
I'm pretty sure that's "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Caries who didn't have another hit, as far as I know.
Much warmer than usual, with those dreaded north winds. Fire danger is high but we're not on the list for a power outage. Odd, feeling like we dodged a bullet, just for having our electricity on.
Rosemary in Columbus responded:
Bette Davis Eyes
Dave in Tucson replied:
The song is Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes
Daniel in The City said:
Bette Davis Eyes
Harry M. wrote:
Bette Davis Eyes
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Bette Davis Eyes
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Bette Davis Eyes
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Joe S replied:
It's my conclusion that it is "Bette Davis Eyes." I could be wrong, but I don't think so.
I kind of liked the "other eyes" better, "Marty Feldman Eyes."
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Even early in famed portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh's career, he was well known - in fact, better known than some people thought. Mr. Karsh, a Canadian photographer, took a portrait of Artur Rubinstein, and Mr. Rubinstein was much impressed by the result. Back at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, he wanted to let two of his colleagues, Leopold Mannis and Leopold Godowski, know about his discovery of a great new photographer. He started by saying, "Way in the backwoods of Canada, in Ottawa, I have discovered a fine young photographer." Mr. Mannis asked, "Could it be Karsh?" Mr. Rubinstein replied, "Hush, please. You are spoiling my story."
At a time when no work needed to be done, Ub Iwerks and some other animators played poker; however, Walt Disney did not join the game but instead became engrossed in doing something at a desk. At one point, Mr. Iwerks looked over Mr. Disney's shoulder and discovered that he was practicing his signature. After seeing that, Mr. Iwerks realized that here was a man whose ego would drive him to become famous and very successful.
Charles Schultz' comic strip Peanuts was enormously popular and enormously respected. In fact, Mr. Schultz was given a retrospective at the Louvre, the first living cartoonist to be so honored. A humble man, Mr. Schultz said in an interview with Time magazine, "I'm no Andrew Wyeth." Not long after, Mr. Wyeth telephoned him and congratulated him on his work.
After James McNeill Whistler's painting of his mother (Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother) became famous, he was asked to visit America. He declined the invitation, writing, "One hates to disappoint a continent."
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American artist Wayne Thiebaud frequently paints food and especially desserts; in fact, a critic once wrote that Mr. Thiebaud had to be "the hungriest artist in California." Unfortunately, this subject matter kept his paintings from achieving recognition for a while. In New York, he went from art gallery to art gallery, carrying his paintings and being rejected. Eventually, he made his way to the Allan Stone Gallery, and Mr. Stone told him, "You look like you need to sit down and take it easy. Let's go out for a hamburger. I know a great place." The two men talked, and Mr. Stone asked him to leave his paintings behind for him to look at. Mr. Stone frequently lived with works of art for a while before deciding whether to represent an artist. Eventually, he offered Mr. Thiebaud a one-man show. About Mr. Thiebaud's paintings of desserts, Mr. Stone said, "At first I thought they were kind of silly, but I couldn't get them out of my mind. The stuff is serious stuff. There are layers beneath the layer cakes."
Mexican artist Diego Rivera loved pre-Columbian art, and he spent much money to collect it. Once, one of his wives, Lupe Marin, got angry at him, so she ground up some of his pre-Columbian statues, then added hot sauce and served it to him for supper, arguing that since he had spent their food money on the works of art, he could eat them.
The father of choreographer/dancer Bella Lewitzky used to paint. He used food in the settings for his still lifes. Sometimes, a guest would take a piece of food, intending to snack on it, but Bella or her sister would take the food from the guest and put it back in the still-life setting because they valued their father's paintings.
Louise Nevelson was not much of a cook, although she was a world-class sculptor. She once took her kitchen cooking implements, painted them black, and "planted" them in a garden. Actually, she did find a use for a can opener - she used it as a tool in creating etchings.
CBS opens the night with a FRESH'Young Sheldon', followed by a FRESH'The Unicorn', then a FRESH'Mom', followed by a FRESH'Carol's Second Act', then a FRESH'Evil'.
Scheduled on a FRESHStephen Colbert are Steve Carell and Toby Keith.
Scheduled on a FRESHJames Corden, OBE, are Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr., and Zazie Beetz.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'Superstore', followed by a FRESH'Perfect Harmony', then a FRESH'The Good Place', followed by a FRESH'Will & Grace', then a FRESH'L&O: SVU'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Keegan-Michael Key, Chance the Rapper, and Brockhampton.
Scheduled on a FRESHSeth Meyers are Willem Dafoe, Kathryn Hahn, A$AP Ferg, and Terence Higgins.
Scheduled on a FRESHLilly Singh are Jenna Dewan and Nick Offerman.
ABC starts the night with a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy', followed by a FRESH'A Million Little Things', then a FRESH'How To Get Away With Murder'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Eddie Murphy, Maya Rudolph, and the Sugarhill Gang.
The CW offers a FRESH'Supernatural', followed by a FRESH'Legacies'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'Thursday Night Football'.
MY recycles an old 'L&O: CI', followed by another old 'L&O: CI'.
A&E has 'Live PD', followed by a FRESH'Live PD: Rewind', 'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', followed by a FRESH'Live PD Presents: PD Cam', then a FRESH'Live PD: Wanted'.
AMC offers the movie 'Halloween', followed by the movie 'Halloween H20: 20 Years Later', then the movie 'Halloween: Resurrection'.
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[6:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 14-Message in a Bottle
[7:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 15-Hunters
[8:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 16-Prey
[9:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 17-Retrospect
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 18-The Killing Game, Pt. 1
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 19-The Killing Game, Pt. 2
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 20-Vis a Vis
[1:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 21-The Omega Directive
[2:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 22-Unforgettable
[3:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 23-Living Witness
[4:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 24-Demon
[5:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 25-One
[6:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 26-Hope and Fear
[7:00PM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 1-Night
[8:00PM] THE BOURNE IDENTITY (2002)
[10:30PM] THE BOURNE IDENTITY (2002)
[1:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 23-Living Witness
[2:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 24-Demon
[3:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 25-One
[4:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 4 - EPISODE 26-Hope and Fear
[5:00AM] STAR TREK: VOYAGER - SEASON 5 - EPISODE 1-Night (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Below Deck', another 'Below Deck', followed by a FRESH'Million Dollar Listing NY', 'Cash Cab', then a FRESH'Watch What Happens Live'.
FX has the movie 'The Equalizer', followed by a FRESH'Mr. Inbetween', and another 'Mr. Inbetween'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', followed by a FRESH'American Pickers', and another 'American Pickers'.
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[6:15A] Pee-wee's Playhouse - Monster
[6:45A] Paranormal Activity 4
[8:45A] The Possession
[10:45A] The Apparition
[12:30P] Creepshow
[3:15P] Fright Night
[5:45P] Carrie
[8:00P] The Purge
[10:00P] The Cabin in the Woods
[12:00A] Legion
[2:15A] Dark Skies
[4:15A] The Apparition (ALL TIMES EDT)
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[6:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[6:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[7:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:15am] The Andy Griffith Show
[8:45am] The Andy Griffith Show
[9:15am] Double Jeopardy
[11:45am] Night of the Living Dead
[1:45pm] Carrie
[4:00pm] Law & Order
[5:00pm] Law & Order
[6:00pm] Law & Order
[7:00pm] Law & Order
[8:00pm] Law & Order
[9:00pm] Law & Order
[10:00pm] Law & Order
[11:00pm] Law & Order
[12:00am] Law & Order
[1:00am] Double Jeopardy
[3:30am] The Cry
[4:46am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:20am] The Andy Griffith Show
[5:55am] The Andy Griffith Show (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Texas Chainsaw', followed by the movie 'Saw: The Final Chapter', then the movie 'Underworld'.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the winner of this year's $1 million Berggruen Prize for philosophy and culture.
The award announced Wednesday by the Los Angeles-based Berggruen Institute honors Ginsburg for her pioneering legal work for gender equality and her support for the rule of law. The institute says Ginsburg will direct the money to charity.
The 86-year-old Ginsburg has been on the Supreme Court since 1993. Before joining the high court, she served 13 years as a federal appeals court judge in Washington, D.C.
Ginsburg spent the early part of her career as a professor at the Rutgers University law school in New Jersey and at Columbia University law school. She started the American Civil Liberties Union's Women's Rights Project in the 1970s.
The Berggruen Prize was established in 2016 by philanthropist Nicolas Berggruen to honor those who have "profoundly shaped human self-understanding and advancement."
James Murdoch really doesn't watch Succession and also doesn't watch Fox News Channel.
Proving he is far from Roman Roy on HBO's Emmy-nominated media dynasty series, Rupert Murdoch's youngest son on Wednesday circumspectly handled a slew of questions about his family and the new ground he's staking out for himself. However, Murdoch did say he was "disappointed to see" longtime FNC anchor Shepard Smith leave the cable newser suddenly this month.
Clarifying that viewers have "to be careful not to go down rabbit holes" and "there's plenty of stuff on Fox News I disagree with," the former News Corp CEO ignored his previous statement that he doesn't watch the Suzanne Scott-run outlet. He also added he found it "frustrating see how news organizations preach to the choir in these opinion shows."
The longtime protector of his controversial and sharp-elbowed father then pivoted into a familiar role of pushing the spotlight off Fox and asserted that "I think you have to look at talk radio too and the reaction of general partisanship in the country."
With the formal $71.3 billion acquisition by Disney of most of Fox earlier this year, Murdoch took his billions from the deal and set up venture firm Lupa Systems. On Wednesday, he claimed that he didn't leave because he didn't get a big job at Disney. He also said he "really wasn't" interested in being Bob Iger's successor at the House of Mouse. "The outside world wants you to fight in some corporate dog fight and that was no fun," he stated, with no specific names - like his now Fox-ruling brother Lachlan - called out.
There was always talks that Quentin Tarantino would add more scenes to his ninth movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood following its premiere at Cannes, finally, here it is, a new cut, just in time for awards season that Sony will re-release in around 1,500 theaters on Friday. Four never-before-scenes will be added, book-ending the new print. The movie, Tarantino's first outside of his partnership with the Weinsteins, is his second-grossing ever stateside with $139.8M, $368.3M worldwide behind Django Unchained. The pic opened during the final weekend of July to $41M and one of the few pieces of counter-programming in a Disney-filled IP summer to work.
For those living in LA and happened to catch Hollywood at Tarantino's Beverly Cinema, that print offered up an extended cut of a Bounty Law segment (the TV show starring DiCaprio's Rick Dalton character). The movie follows Dalton, a fading movie star who is crashing into TV and his loyal stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). They also happen to be neighbors to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) in the Hollywood Hills at a socially-disruptive time in LA, the summer of '69. Al Pacino also stars.
Recently it was reported that Leonardo DiCaprio would run in the best actor Oscar category while Brad Pitt will compete in supporting.
Tarantino also wrote. David Heyman, Shannon McIntosh and Tarantino produced. Georgia Kacandes, YU Dong and Jeffrey Chan serve as EPs.
In a ceremony at an ancient, ruined temple in northern Iraq, Faiza Fuad joined a growing number of Kurds who are leaving Islam to embrace the faith of their ancestors -- Zoroastrianism.
Years of violence by the Islamic State jihadist group have left many disillusioned with Islam, while a much longer history of state oppression has pushed some in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region to see the millennia-old religion as a way of reasserting their identity.
"After Kurds witnessed the brutality of IS, many started to rethink their faith," said Asrawan Qadrok, the faith's top priest in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.
During Fuad's conversion ritual in Darbandikhan, near the Iranian border, a high priest and his assistants wore white clothes representing purity and recited verses from the Zoroastrian holy book, the Avesta.
They knotted a cord three times around Fuad's waist to symbolise the faith's core values of good words, good thoughts and good deeds.
Republicans in South Carolina have voted to proceed on a measure that would strip abortion exemptions in cases of rape or incest, and criminalise the procedure almost entirely as soon as a foetal heartbeat is detected.
The proposed bill is the latest attack on abortion rights throughout the United States, in an effort by conservatives keen on bringing the issue before the Supreme Court. There, they hope, they may finally be able to make good on a long held dream of repealing some or all of the landmark Roe v Wade decision largely legalising abortion in the country.
"You are in fact killing an innocent human being. Whether you mean to or not, you are punishing a person wrongfully for something he or she had nothing to do with," said Republican state senator Richard Cash, who introduced the amendment that stripped rape and incest exemptions, in an interview with The State.
He continued: "Anyone who is alive who was conceived in rape would probably be very glad that they are alive. And would probably be very willing to discuss and argue with you about their right to life while in the womb."
The measure in South Carolina must still pass the full legislature, before it would be sent to Republican governor Henry McMaster's desk for a signature.
In April 2018, California authorities revealed that they'd used a novel investigative technique to arrest a man they called the Golden State Killer, a serial murderer who'd escaped capture for decades.
For the first time, police had submitted DNA from a crime scene into a consumer DNA database, where information about distant relatives helped them identify a suspect. The announcement kindled a revolution in forensics that has since helped solve more than 50 rapes and homicides in 29 states.
But earlier this year, that online database changed its privacy policy to restrict law enforcement searches, and since then, these cold cases have become much harder to crack. The change is allowing some criminals who could be identified and caught to remain undetected and unpunished, authorities say.
The switch was imposed by GEDmatch, a free website where people share their DNA profiles in hopes of finding relatives. The company had faced criticism for allowing police to search profiles without users' permission, and decided that it would rather make sure members understood explicitly how investigators were using the site. So, it altered its terms of service to automatically exclude all members from law enforcement searches and left it to them to opt in.
Overnight, the number of profiles available to law enforcement dropped from more than 1 million to zero. While the pool has grown slowly since then, as more people click a police-shield icon on GEDmatch allowing authorities to see their profile, cases remain more difficult to solve, investigators say.
More than 100 elephants have died in Botswana in the past two months partly because of a suspected anthrax outbreak, the government said on Tuesday.
"Preliminary investigations suggest the elephants are dying from anthrax whilst some died from drought effects," a Department of Wildlife and National Parks statement said.
"Due to the severe drought, elephants end up ingesting soil while grazing and get exposed to the anthrax bacteria spore," it said.
Elephants Without Borders said an aerial survey showed fresh elephant carcasses increased by 593% between 2014 to 2018, mostly from poaching and illegal hunting, with drought also a contributing factor.
The wildlife authority said the latest deaths were in the Chobe River front and Nantanga areas in northern Botswana, where 14 dead elephants were found this week. It said it would be burning the carcasses to prevent the anthrax infection from spreading to other animals.
Israeli archaeologists have revealed an elaborately decorated Byzantine church dedicated to an anonymous martyr that was recently uncovered near Jerusalem.
The Israel Antiquities Authority showcased some of the finds from the nearly 1,500-year-old structure on Wednesday after three years of excavations. The findings will be exhibited at Jerusalem's Bible Lands Museum.
An inscription on a mosaic says the site was built in honor of a "glorious martyr." The martyr is not identified, but other inscriptions commemorate the empire's expansion under the sixth-century ruler Justinian and one of his successors, Tiberius II Constantine.
Because of the church's size and rich trappings, researchers from the Israel Antiquities Authority believe it was a popular pilgrimage site until it was abandoned during the Muslim Abbasid caliphate in the 9th century AD.
The elaborate design of the church, including a lattice marble chancel, calcite flowstone baptismal and floor mosaic depicting an eagle, a symbol of the Byzantine Empire, shows the site's notable funding and significance.
We all wish we could get by on less sleep, but one father and son actually can-without suffering any health consequences and while actually performing on memory tests as well as, or better than, most people.
To understand this rare ability, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, first identified a genetic mutation-in both individuals-that they thought might deserve the credit. Then the scientists intentionally made the same small genetic spelling mistake in mice. The mice also needed less sleep, remembered better and suffered no other ill effects, according to a study published Oct. 16 in Science Translational Medicine.
Although a medication with the same benefits will not be available anytime soon-and might never materialize-the idea is incredibly appealing: take a pill that replicates whatever the father and son's body does and sleep less, with no negative repercussions.
The study's senior author, Ying-Hui Fu, a professor of neurology at U.C.S.F., says it is far too early for such fantasies. Instead she is interested in better understanding the mechanisms of healthy sleep to help prevent diseases ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's.
The subjects, who live on the East Coast, reached out to Fu's team after hearing about a previous publication of its work. She would not reveal any more information about them to protect their privacy, except that they are fully rested after four to six hours of sleep instead of the more typical seven to nine. Also, Fu says, the duo and others with similar mutations are more optimistic, more active and better at multitasking than the average person. "They like to keep busy. They don't sit around wasting time," she says.
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