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According To This Sleep Expert, Work And School Shouldn't Start Until After 10am

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Sleep is money for the brain, and young adults are accruing as much as 10 hours of sleep debt each week.  According to sleep expert Paul Kelley, a sleep-deprivation crisis is burdening young adults in today's world. “This is a huge issue for society,” Kelley, who works for the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford, told the Guardian.  “We are generally a sleep-deprived society but the 14-24 age group is more sleep-deprived than any other sector of society.  This causes serious threats to health, mood performance and mental health.” For school children, Kelley advocates age-based start times: 8:30 a.m. for eight to 10-year-olds, 10 a.m. lessons for 16-year-olds, and 11 a.m. starts for 18-year-olds. While this might sound drastic, his approach does have scientific backing. According to the National Sleep Foundation, adolescents don’t start releasing melatonin – a hormone that helps regulate our body clo...

Sleeping man stabbed in the behind

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A man was stabbed in his behind while sleeping in bed after he fought with another man over a girl, police in Ohio said. The Cleveland Police Department said that man who was stabbed in the backside while sleeping, initially told police that he did not know who attacked him. He did however, say that he fought with a man over a girl before the attack. Family members of the man, who live in a home on Gay Avenue, told investigators that they were sleeping at the time of the attack, which occurred around 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday Paramedics who arrived at the scene, took the 24-year-old man to the MetroHealth Medical Center, where he finally told investigators who has stabbed him. The victim told police that Donte stabbed him in the behind, and he lives somewhere in the hood. He refused to say anything more about his attacker. Police are looking for Donte, but so far, no arrests have been made.d in fight over girlBy: Tanya Malhotra  A man was stabbed in his behind while ...