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These health effects can occur when people breathe gaseous mercury, which forms when mercury or products that contain it come into contact with the air, particularly in warm or poorly ventilated indoor spaces.

Yesterday, however, students were talking about their time off.

"I was relieved to have it," Farr said.

"I sat around, mostly, and I cleaned my room." Said Tatten: "I slept for a while on Thursday.

Then I went to the rehearsal for Grease." Junior Dino D.

Sookey played baseball, completed homework and relaxed.

"It was nothing really special," he said.

"But the four days break up the weeks in school.

There was time for everyone to rest.

I had a cold, so it was good to have that." Sophomore Aimee B.

LeBlanc finished school assignments and went to Sugar Hill, an assisted-living residence in Dalton, where she is employed as a member of the waitstaff.

"It was nice to have the days off," LeBlanc said.

"But I don't know if we'll have to make it up during the summer." Make-up options Superintendent Alfred W.

Skrocki said the high school must have 180 school days, and that school officials have discussed their options for making up the classes.

The high school could have additional days at the end of the school year, he said, or eliminate an upcoming in-service day.

The district had three snow days this past winter.

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...ba href=/insomnia/a/b is nothing to worry about, but chronic sleep loss can result in weight gain, increased risk of hypertension and other health concerns.

The use of sleep medication is on the rise, but drugs can be physically or mentally addictive.

Instead, lay the foundation for a good night's sleep during the day; don't caffeinate, exercise or stimulate the brain by watching television or reading a thriller too close to bedtime.

Create a before-bed ritual as you would for a newborn, suggests Ann Dyer in the companion guide for Z Yoga, the Yoga Sleep Ritual (sleepgarden.com).

To soothe the senses, Dyer recommends "taking a hot, fragrant bath, giving yourself a foot massage with scented oil, turning down the lights and lighting a candle, changing into soft sleepwear, having a cup of herbal tea or hot milk, turning off the TV and turning on some quiet music or just enjoying silence." If all else fails, Dyer says, "have confidence in the power of rest." If you let go of the goal to sleep, you'll very likely drift off.

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Stephen Strang from Canada, a 61-years old executive, has had problems with wounds that will not heal for about a year.

He was amazed at the amount of painkillers he took and would still be in pain.

As a consequence he got drowsy and was worried that continued medication could cause problems for him.

Biatain-Ibu has changed all that.

"By the time I reached the door to leave the doctor's office, I had no pain," he says.

"This is a real breakthrough for countless people who are suffering needlessly from these wounds", says C.

Richard Chapman, professor and director of the Pain Research Center at the University of Utah.

A world known expert on pain, he urges the medical community at large to focus more attention on the suffering caused by chronic wounds.

Lesley Thorne, a British Tissue Viability Nurse at the Manchester Royal Infirmary describes the daily reality for chronic wound sufferers: "It is terrible for these patients.

They are in such constant pain and agony and it doesn't matter what is done, it doesn't get any better." Christine Moffatt, who is Professor of Nursing at Thames Valley University, London, and Director of the Centre for Research and Implementation of Clinical Practice, says: "The traditional tablets that patients take for pain simply don't help.

It seems that this particular product is able to apply the actual pain-relieving agent to the area of the wound.

It gets to the source of where the pain...