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Sleep Experts Answer Your Questions On Teens And Shuteye

After Michelle Trudeau’s story The Other Big Deficit: Many Teens Fall Short On Sleep aired on Morning Edition on Monday, we asked listeners to submit questions on teens and sleep. We received dozens of questions and posed some of them to a panel of sleep experts. Their responses, edited for brevity and clarity, are below.

Helene Emsellem, neurologist at George Washington University and medical director of the Center for Sleep and Wake Disorders

Question from Rowan Rose: I have two teens who have difficulty sleeping, and I worry that they have developed bad sleep habits they might never grow out of.

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How to Get Twin Boys

Good afternoon, folks. I have a stepsister here in Nigeria. She’s forty-one years old now; her problems started eleven years ago when she got married and discovered that she has fibroid. She has three daughters now but each time she became pregnant, she will go through severe pains but at the end of nine months, she will be operated upon. Now her question is that she wants to have twin boys—how will she get twin boys?

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Equip yourself and your bike for safety, Century Cycles advises

Equip yourself and your bike for safety, Century Cycles advises Helmet? Check. Lubed chain? Check. Light for riding at night? Check. Ready for the biking season?

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio — For Adam Falkner and the folks at Century Cycles, May is their peak season.

It’s the busiest time of year for the shop as new and veteran bikers take to the streets again. Falkner has worked at Century Cycles for eight years in the Rocky River shop.

May 9 marked the beginning of “Bike to School Challenge” week in Rocky River and Bay Village. Students were given Ride Cards, which allowed them to tally mileage.

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Spoof Site Mocks Coal Company With Promise Of Asthma Inhalers For Kids

The website CoalCares.org is about as slick as they come.

But did you really think, even for a second, that Peabody Energy, a big-time producer of coal, would really provide kid-friendly asthma inhalers to children who live within 200 miles of a coal-fired power plant?

A press release attributed to Peabody this morning announced just such an initiative, which purportedly aims to ease the stigma for kids who need asthma inhalers.

A Web page on the site contains a gallery of designer inhalers, supposedly available free to kids with a doctor’s prescription, that feature pictures of Dora the Explorer, Elmo and “The Bieber,” among others.

Within minutes of receiving my email asking about the site’s provenance, Meg Gallagher, a spokeswoman for the real Peabody, responded:

The site is in fact a hoax.

It took a little bit longer to get a comment from the folks on the press release announcing the site.

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