Regular snoring and other sleep-breathing problems in children can predict future development of inattention and hyperactivity, finds U-M neurologist Ronald Chervin. (Head of Sleeping Child by Corot.)

The isolated Huichol people of Mexico recently gained sources of light and electricity from visitors from U-M's College of Architecture and Urban Planning.

Author Anne Carson's next volume, Decreation, will be published by Knopf this September ($24.95 hardcover). It will include the three poems recorded here as well as essays and an opera. Carson is professor of classics and of comparative literature.

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Consumer confidence posted a substantial improvement in the June survey by researcher Richard Curtin, but in a recurring pattern, rising gas prices eroded the mood a bit.

Tally Hall is a Beatle-esque quintet of Michigan undergraduates whose danceable rock and understandable, playful lyrics are gaining them an ever-wider following. "Good Day" is the lead number on their debut CD, Complete Demos.

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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 limited welfare for poor women and forced many to get jobs. Severe health problems have risen as a result, and "it might be that things are getting even worse," says researcher George Kaplan. (Image: detail from 'Sweatshop,' George Biddle, 1935.)

Art Prof. Jan-Henrik Andersen is showing physicists what quarks, photons and nuons may look like. Top/Muon Event from the Fermi Tevaton

Joshua Karnes is publishing a blog while interning in Indonesia for a relief agency. The School of Public Health student is helping in the recovery of villages devastated by the December 2004 tsunami, which killed over 80,000 in the town of Banda Aceh, where he's living. (Pictured: Karnes and children of Banda Aceh)