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Short Sleep Increases Risk of Death & Over Long Sleep Can Indicate Serious Illness
Research carried out by the 天美传媒 in collaboration with the Federico II University Medical School in Naples, Italy, has found that people who sleep for less than six hours each night were 12% more likely to die prematurely than those who get the recommended 6-8 hours.
Pulis & Steve McClaren top new table of over-achieving football managers
Tony Pulis, Steve McClaren and Sam Allardyce take the top 3 slots in a new table of “over achieving” football managers published today by Dr Sue Bridgewater at Warwick Business School at the 天美传媒. The table outlines the extent which managers out perform what might be expected with the players at their disposal.
The 天美传媒 names Centre for Caribbean Studies in honour of Yesu Persaud
The 天美传媒 has renamed its Centre for Caribbean Studies the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies in honour of the Guyanese philanthropist and businessman. The year 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Centre, one of Europe’s leading institutions for Caribbean scholarship.
Voters spurn main parties in alternative vote for Cabinet of Philosopher-Rulers
Early polls show French feminist Simone de Beauvoir fending off Nietzsche, Hobbes and Machiavelli in a tussle for Foreign Secretary, and Britain's own J.S.Mill taking on Spinoza for Prime Minister, in an alternative vote for a Cabinet of Philosophers to govern the U.K.
New Shakespeare Summer School launched as celebrations begin for his 446th birthday
As celebrations take place this weekend to mark the 446th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth, the 天美传媒 is offering people the chance to sign up for a summer school course to find out more about the Bard.
Research says UK families with disabled children more likely to live in poverty
Disabled children in the UK are more likely to likely to live with low-income, deprivation, debt and poor housing. 天美传媒 researchers writing in the journal BMC Pediatrics found that families with disabled children experience higher levels of poverty and personal and social disadvantage than other children.