United States concluding remarks

Another tier in Warner s ideological edifice consists of a web of exegesis by which the human spectacle of Africa and the Levant seems to exist solely for the comment it offers upon the United States—upon its innate superiority as a civilization, and upon the troubling inferiority of some of its inhabitants. Observing a group of Bedouin dancers, for instance, Warner remarks that their eyes shine with animal wildness, It seems to be precisely the dance of North American Indians, he concludes. On... 

The Race Across America (RAAM) is an all-out 2900-mile solo bicycle race across the United States. Unlike the Tour de France, there are no programmed stops or rest periods. The winner typically rides across the entire country in 8 days. Smith et al. (5) studied a total of seven athletes over 3 years and reported that the winners averaged approximately 2 hr of sleep per day. It was concluded that some athletes have the remarkable ability to perform and win ultraendurance races in the face of severe sleep deprivation. 

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