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...ba href=/sleep/a/b at Royal Lodge, Windsor, outside London; she was 101 years old.

Ten years ago: The space shuttle Atlantis narrowly avoided having to make an emergency landing when its cargo-bay doors wouldn't open at first to release built-up heat.

Funeral services were held in Bethesda, Md., for former senator and secretary of state Edmund Muskie.

Five years ago: Top environment officials from North, Central and South America ended two days of talks in Montreal without a consensus agreement on global warming.

(A statement signed by 26 ministers from Latin American and Caribbean countries faulted a decision by the United States to reject the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.) One year ago: Under heavy protection, First Lady Laura Bush visited the capital of Afghanistan, where she talked with Afghan women freed from Taliban repression and urged greater rights.

The Supreme Court ruled that federal law allows people 40 and over to file age bias claims over salary and hiring even if employers never intended any harm.

Fred Korematsu, who'd challenged the World War II internment policy that sent Japanese-Americans to detention camps, died in Larkspur, Calif., at age 86.

Today's Birthdays: Singer Frankie Laine is 93.

Actor Richard Dysart is 77.

Actor John Astin is 76.

Game show host Peter Marshall is 76.

Actor-director Warren Beatty is 69.

Rock musician Graeme Edge (The Moody Blues) is 65.

Rock musician Eric Clapton is 61.

Actor Robbie Coltrane is 56.

Actor Paul Reiser is 49.

Rap artist MC Hammer is 43.

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...ba href=/sleep/a/b disorder expert said this week.

"If you've gone to ba href=/sleep/a/b at the wheel, you've gone to ba href=/sleep/a/b for 45 seconds — imagine if you're going 60 mph and for 45 seconds you don't know where you are," said Clint Ackerman, director of outpatient services for Newton Memorial Hospital's new ba href=/sleep/a/b Diagnostic & Treatment Center.

The hospital recently opened the center — complete with four observation rooms — to diagnose and treat common ba href=/sleep/a/b disorders that rob millions of Americans of a good night's ba href=/sleep/a/b.

"Seventy million Americans suffer from ba href=/sleep/a/b deprivation," Christopher Lynch, chairman of the hospital's Board of Directors, said at Tuesday's ribbon-cutting ceremony.

"There's nothing like a good night's ba href=/sleep/a/b to get you energized," Lynch said.

"If you know anybody who has any issues with ba href=/sleep/a/bing, these are the people to see." Although it is a laboratory, the inside of the new center looks more like a hotel, with private baths, large double beds and plasma-screen televisions.

Patients spend a night in the rooms while their ba href=/sleep/a/b cycles are monitored and observed on computers by technicians across the hall.

The next day, patients can wake up and get ready to go to work right from the center.

A newspaper will even be waiting for them, Ackerman said.

Across the street from Newton Memorial Hospital, the center is an expansion of the two-room ba href=/sleep/a/b center the hospital had.

According to Dr.

Daya Nadarajah, co-medical director of the center, there was "very little respons...

...ba href=/sleep/a/b on bus benches or under bridges and a treatment center for those beaten or malnourished.

Rescuers on average in 2004 and 2005 rushed there more than three times a month.

Average response time: 6 minutes 51 seconds.

Almost a minute too late.

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