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...ba href=/insomnia/a/b can be cured by the sound of the commissioner's voice.OK, so he's not Vince Lombardi.

But I'll challenge anyone to produce an individual who, over the span of the past 16 years, had a more positive impact upon the game that he governed.Tagliabue, a lawyer by trade, had the unenviable task of following the legendary Pete Rozelle, whose vision of a league made for television changed the NFL from a time-filler between baseball seasons to the No.

1 sport in the land.

But while Rozelle was a visionary with a public-relations background, Tagliabue had the business sense to take the foundation that Rozelle put down and build upon it.Perhaps one of the lesser heralded accomplishments of Tagliabue's reign was the stadium building boom that revitalized the league, More than two-thirds of the teams in the league are either playing in or building stadiums that didn't exist when Tagliabue took over in 1989.The building boom helped stem the tide of franchise moves that threatened to erode the fans' faith in the stability of the NFL.

One of the things that made it possible was a financing system developed under Tagliabue's guidance that would have all league members kick some cash into a general fund from which franchises could take out ``loans'' to help the stadium-building process along.That's one reason why the New England Patriots aren't displaying their three Vince Lombardi Trophies at the foot of the Gateway Arch in St.

Louis.Many believe that Robert Kraft just pulled $3...

...ba href=/insomnia/a/b of bomb-blasts in the Baghdad darkness outside.

I would curl up like an animal in my bed and thumb through the predictions of this present folly.

I read a fearful prophecy by the evangelical preacher Pat Buchanan written five months before we illegally invaded Iraq.

"This invasion will not be the cakewalk neo-conservatives predict," he said.

"Terrorist attacks in liberated Iraq seem as certain as in liberated Afghanistan.

For a militant Islam ...

will never accept George Bush dictating the destiny of the Islamic world ...

Pax Americana will reach apogee but then the tide recedes; for the one endeavour at which Islamic peoples excel is expelling imperial powers by terror and guerrilla warfare." There were the dreary precedents.

Muslims drove the Brits out of Palestine and Aden; the French out of Algeria; the Russians out of Afghanistan; the Americans out of Somalia; and Beirut, the Israelis out of Lebanon.

As Buchanan wrote, "we have started up the road to empire, and over the next hill we will meet those who went before." However, we shall not count the bodies.

What was it Bush told us a few weeks ago?

That 30,000 Iraqis had been killed since the invasion, his very words a racist admission; for what he actually said was: "30,000 more or less".

More or less, give or take a few hundred.

Would he have dared to say that US casualties were "2,000 more or less"?

Of course not.

Our dead are precious; they are individuals with widows and children.

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...ba href=/insomnia/a/b to sleep apnea doctors say about two-thirds of Americans have some sort of sleep issue that can effect overall health.

"One of the things we try to talk to patients about is the cardiovascular complications of sleep apnea because of the patients repetitive arousal and drops in oxygen at night moderate to severe sleep apnea can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease and can lead to stroke," said Dr.

James Christon.

Moderate to severe sleep apnea is often treated with Continuous Positive Airway Pressure also known as CPAP.

It's a tight fitting mask connected to an air compressor that keeps the airway open.

Dave Hanai-Wills was diagnosed with sleep apnea at Sacred Heart Hospital's Sleep Disorders Center and he said his CPAP treatment is working.

"My wife has said over 30 years that that's the first time I stopped snoring," said Hanai-Wills.

If you think you may be suffering from a sleep disorder, experts say you should talk to your doctor about your sleep habits before getting a referral to a sleep specialist.

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