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9 Ways to Turn Your Bedroom Into a Sanctuary for $100 or Less

Prostock-studio / Shutterstock.com The older I get, the more I value a good night’s sleep — that deep, drooling, forget-the-world kind of sleep. But good rest doesn’t happen by chance, at least not after age 50. These days, it takes a little planning and effort. If you’re having trouble unwinding …

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Google-Owned Waze To Close Sales Office In S’pore And APAC – Axes 5% Of Global Workforce

Waze, the Google-owned navigation and mapping service, will lay off 5 per cent of its global workforce, said its CEO Noam Bardin in an email announcement to employees. This equates to about 30 people out of its 555-strong global workforce. It did not mention how many of its Singapore staff are …

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I Got Blown Up in Iraq. Years Later, Amputating My Leg Set Me Free.

I only have flashes of memory from getting hit in a roadside bomb attack near Balad, Iraq, on Oct. 4, 2005. I saw the concerned driver reaching out to shake me awake, but at the time I couldn’t recall who he was. With growing panic, I realized that I couldn’t …

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