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A study found that women who sleep too little are at risk of major weight gain. Scientists monitored almost 70,000 women for 16 years, recording their weight and sleep patterns. Compared with sound sleepers, women who slept no more than 5 hours a night were 32% more likely to gain 33 pounds or more during the course of the study and were 15% more likely to become obese. The researchers said the findings were not related to diet or exercise.

The Brooklyn Bridge, one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States, stretches over the East River from Manhattan to Brooklyn. Construction on the bridge began in 1869 and lasted 14 years. At the time of its completion, it was the first steel-wire suspension bridge in the world and was the world's longest suspension bridge—fifty percent longer than any previously built. The bridge was opened to traffic on May 24, 1883. On that first day, how many vehicles crossed it?

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

DEFINITION: (noun) A gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages. SYNONYMS: solidus, byzant. USAGE: I showed my history professor the gold coin that I had found on my archaeology hike, and he informed me that it was an actual bezant.

Dylan is a legendary American singer-songwriter. Much of his best-known work is from the 1960s, when he became a documentarian and reluctant figurehead of American unrest. Young people in general and many involved in the civil rights movement found an anthem and rallying cry in his song The Times They Are a-Changin'. Dylan expanded the vocabulary of popular music by incorporating social commentary, philosophy, and literature. In his high school yearbook, what did he list as his ambition?

Hammurabi was the 6th king of Babylonia. He founded an empire that was eventually destroyed by raids from Asia Minor. His famous code of laws, found at Susa in 1902, addresses such issues as business and family relations, labor, private property, and personal injuries, and is generally humanitarian. One severe feature, however, is the retributive nature of punishment, which follows "an eye for an eye" literally. What important legal principle used today derives from this code?