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DEFINITION: (adjective) Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment. SYNONYMS: bewildered, confounded, baffled, mixed-up, bemused, lost. USAGE: The audience was befuddled by the speaker's contradictory statements.

After returning from exile at Elba, Napoleon reinstalled himself on the throne of France for 100 days. During this time, the forces of the rest of Europe converged on him. On June 18, Napoleon began a massed attack against the British center, but the British stemmed the tide until the arrival of Prussian forces. This event proved the turning point of the battle. Routed, the French retreated, and Napoleon left the field and signed his second abdication. The battle resulted in how many casualties?

Jhumpa Lahiri is a contemporary Indian-American (Bengali) author based in New York City. Her debut, Interpreter of Maladies, addresses sensitive dilemmas in the lives of Indian immigrants, exploring themes involving marital difficulties, miscarriages, and the disconnection between first and second generation immigrants in the US. A film adaptation of her novel, The Namesake, will be released in November 2007. She is a vice president of what important organization?

At SLEEP 2007, a conference of sleep experts and professionals, researchers presented the results of a study on weekend "catch up" sleep and its overall effectiveness. Teens often sleep little during the week and, in order to compensate, they try to catch up on weekends by sleeping late. The unfortunate consequence is that the body's biological clock resets to that later wake-up time; this causes a kind of "jetlag" on Monday morning that can result in poor academic performance.