When Time is Not on Their Side, Parents Make Weekends Work

The Washington Post;  February 6, 1997 ;     700+ words ......scheduler for IBM, has a radical concept of weekends -- at least, it's a radical idea in the busy Washington suburbs. In her household, weekends are for rest, relaxation and family time...parents say that they have to jam their weekends with children's activities and chores...

HIGHER MORTALITY RATE FOUND ON WEEKENDS IN STUDY OF HOSPITALS CANADA...

The Boston Globe;  August 30, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Patients who enter hospitals on weekends are more likely to die from a variety...artery died 42 percent of the time on weekends, as opposed to 36 percent on weekdays...prepared to deal with some emergencies on weekends, according to the researchers, who said...

Indiana University Professors Focus on Daily Lives of People With Serious...

AScribe Health News Service;  October 13, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Department of Kinesiology, recruited study participants from community mental health programs...Serbia. McCormick and Frey asked study participants to wear motion sensors to record...person's recall. Among the findings: The study participants were surprisingly inactive. Inactivity...

The Lost Weekends

The Washington Post;  August 11, 1995 ;     700+ words ......Weekend we live a fiction. We pretend that all weekends are good. We are the Bible of good weekends. Just riffle through our pages and be on...chirp. But we know that isn't true. Some weekends are not good. Some weekends are very, very...

Weekends.com Exceeds $1.5 Million in First Round of Financing; Internet...

PR Newswire;  November 1, 2000 ;     307 words ...STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Weekends.com (http://www.weekends.com), a leading Internet travel company specializing...and a number of Chicago and Pennsylvania angels. Weekends.com, which only employs 5 people, will use the...

Weekends.com Re-Launches Under New Ownership And Undercuts Major Online...

PR Newswire;  September 5, 2000 ;     336 words ......COLLEGE, Pa., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Weekends.com, Inc. the weekend solution company...announced the re-launch of its website, www.weekends.com. The new website offers bargain flights...quickly on the heels of the acquisition of weekends.com by its new parent company BeastoftheEast...

Weekends become more hectic, less relaxing

Daily Breeze;  May 24, 2005 ;     236 words ......making it near the garden. Not even on weekends. Life magazine has just put out The Great...measuring how Americans spend their weekends and what they expect to get out of them...percent of Americans spend more time on weekends doing things they have to do rather than...

Americans' Weekends Focus on Family, Food and Sex.

PR Newswire;  May 17, 2005 ;     667 words ......plan, spend and want to get out of their weekends. The study was conducted by phone with...to do vs. what they want to do on the weekends. * Close to half of Americans (46) bring...Procrastinators Many Americans plan their weekends at the last minute. * 47 of Americans...

Hospital death rates higher on weekends Those admitted during week find...

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 30, 2001 ;     486 words ......death, mortality rates for patients admitted on weekends were higher than rates for patients admitted...conditions in which death rates were lower on the weekends. Researchers defined weekends as the period from midnight Friday to midnight...

Stay well on weekends

Jerusalem Post;  June 2, 2002 ;     412 words ...00-00-0000 Headline: Stay well on weekends Byline: JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH Edition...emergency room is significantly higher on weekends. The most recent issue of the Hebrew...lungs. Death rates were much higher on weekends for these three conditions, as well as...

Cot death danger peaks at weekends.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  June 21, 2004 ;     347 words ...Cot deaths are more likely to happen at weekends, a study confirmed today. Researchers...investigations also noted a cot death peak at weekends. However these were small studies, and...pay less attention to their babies at weekends. A team led by Professor Peter Helms...

Ramsey plans a shift: More to work nights, weekends.(Metropolitan...

The Washington Times;  July 15, 1999 ;     557 words ......when most crimes occur - at night and on weekends. Police officers had been covering beats...senior officers being assigned nights and weekends more often than senior officers. However...Tracy said. There are people now with weekends off who will not have them. It's a disruption...

Capital eye unit set for closure at weekends

Evening News - Scotland;  November 13, 2006 ;     612 words ......the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion at weekends in a bid to end what is seen as a wasteful...hospital is sometimes being kept open at weekends with five nurses, porters and security...be possible to close the hospital at weekends, saving a substantial amount of money...

Metro Trains To Be Shorter On Weekends This Winter

The Washington Post;  November 28, 2007 ;     628 words ...Metro is reducing train service on winter weekends to save money and decrease wear and tear...add train service for special events on weekends, such as basketball games and concerts...the decision to run shorter trains on weekends was dictated by the current budget and...

Sleep Parameters Recorded by Actiwatch® in Elementary School Children and...

Sleep and Hypnosis;  April 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......years adolescents. During schooldays and weekends elementary school children have constant...subjects and second, between schooldays and weekends. During schooldays, adolescents get insufficient...which they try to recompense during weekends. The majority of sleep parameters showed...