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Many are arriving late to school because of overba href=/sleep/a/bing and others are driving drowsy, according to a poll released Tuesday by the National ba href=/sleep/a/b Foundation.

``In the competition between the natural tendency to stay up late and early school start times, a teen's ba href=/sleep/a/b is what loses out,'' said Jodi A.

Mindell of St.

Joseph's University in Philadelphia.

``Sending students to school without enough ba href=/sleep/a/b is like sending them to school without breakfast.

ba href=/sleep/a/b serves not only a restorative function for adolescents' bodies and brains, but it is also a key time when they process what they've learned during the day.'' said Mindell, associate director of the ba href=/sleep/a/b Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

School-age children and teenagers should get at least nine hours of ba href=/sleep/a/b a day, according to the National Center on ba href=/sleep/a/b Disorders Research at the National Institutes of Health.

The poll found that sixth-graders were ba href=/sleep/a/bing an average of 8.4 hours on school nights and 12th-graders just 6.9 hours.

Without enough ba href=/sleep/a/b, a person has trouble focusing and responding quickly, according to NIH.

The agency said there is growing evidence linking a chronic lack of ba href=/sleep/a/b with an increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and infections.

The poll, taken in November, interviewed 1,602 adult caregivers and their ch...

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...ba href=/sleep/a/b on Sunday night," Janitz said.

"I talked to my wife, Emily, about the crash.

It helped, because Sunday was one of the toughest days of my life." DANA, THE WRITER: Dana was a journalism graduate of Northwestern University.

He wrote for several publications, including AutoWeek, Sports Illustrated and Maxim.

He was married to Tonya Bergeson-Dana, a doctor in Indianapolis.

Dana, a St.

Louis native, worked as a mechanic at the Bridgestone Racing Academy in Ontario before competing as a driver in the school series, and moving on to the Skip Barber Formula Dodge series and later into the U.S.

Formula 2000 championship and the IRL's Infiniti Pro Series.

Dana and I crossed paths at the track and, coincidentally, both of us ran in the Bridgestone school championship, at different times.

Like most writers covering the IRL, I found Dana smart and friendly, with an overwhelming commitment to his sponsor.

Paul Dana will be missed greatly by writer and racer.

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