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Review: ‘When’ by Daniel Pink

uncovers the secrets of timing

By RASHA MADKOUR than 1.1 polyps during colo-
Associated Press noscopies performed at 11
It’s January; time to make a.m. By 2 p.m., it dropped
room in the self-improve- to barely half that number,
ment section of your book- even though the patients
case. were no different. What
“When: The Scientific Se- helps mitigate the slide,
crets of Perfect Timing” by Pink explains, are breaks.
Daniel H. Pink perfectly ex- Judges rule in favor of pris-
ecutes the tried-and-true oners about 65 percent of
In this Sept. 9, 2001 file photo, author Ursula Le Guin appears at formula for social science the time early in the day,
her home in Portland, Ore. books. Start with a com- but by late morning, that
Associated Press pelling anecdote, tease it rate drops to nearly zero,
Le Guin, Chernow apart with some science regardless of the facts of

among nominees for and suggest ideas on how the case, researchers have
applying the underlying found. Immediately after
principle can better your the judges take a break,
PEN literary awards life. It fits right in next to “The they become more forgiv- This cover image released
by Riverhead Books shows
ing again, Pink writes, “only
Power of Habit.”
Pink sets out to “unearth to sink into a more hard-line “When: The Scientific Secrets
of Perfect Timing,” by Daniel
NEW YORK (AP) — The late and Kevin Young for the the hidden science of tim- attitude after a few hours.” H. Pink.
Ursula K. Le Guin is among best book of 2017 and ing” — to uncover it as a Earlier isn’t always bet- Associated Press
the finalists for a PEN Amer- Ron Chernow, author of significant if unrecognized ter, however. Teenagers’ writes, that the American
ica literary award. “Grant,” for biography. player in our lives — and changing circadian rhythm Academy of Pediatrics
Le Guin, who died earlier PEN America also an- he largely succeeds. He means they become night has called for middle and
this week at age 88, is a nounced Thursday that for highlights a study of Danish owls, making early school high schools to begin no
nominee for the best book the first time all five nomi- schoolchildren that found start times particularly chal- earlier than 8:30 a.m., and
of essays. She was cited nees for best debut fiction that those who took their lenging. Pink ticks off the the CDC has also pushed
for her collection “No Time are women. They include yearly standardized test consequences of teens for delaying start times.
to Spare: Thinking About Emily Fridlund for “History of in the morning performed not getting enough sleep: Schools that have followed
What Matters.” Wolves” and Carmen Ma- better than those who took they’re at higher risk for de- this recommendation have
Others up for awards in- ria Machado for “Her Body it in the afternoon. The p.m. pression, suicide, substance noted higher grades, better
clude Ta-Nehisi Coates and Other Parties.”q slump is real, which is why abuse and car crashes. Be- attendance and increased
ing sleep deprived is also graduation rates. Still, less
Pink advises against sched-
Actor’s sister leaving uling a doctor’s appoint- correlated with obesity than one in five schools has
and a weakened immune made the change, Pink
ment later in the day. Ac-
cancer center she cording to a study, doctors system. “The evidence of notes. “We simply don’t
found an average of more harm is so massive,” Pink take issues of when as seri-
helped to create Mark Ruffalo, Alyssa Milano

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — The sister of actor Patrick
Dempsey is leaving the cancer center inspired by their plan Trump counter events
mother. Mary Dempsey, a community services coordina-
tor, departed last month from the Dempsey Center be- dress.
fore it formally separated from Central Maine Healthcare The event is planned for
to become its own nonprofit. It’s merging with the Cancer Monday, the day before
Community Center in South Portland. Trump’s speech, at The
Mary Dempsey tells the Sun Journal she decided it was Town Hall, an historic ven-
time to pursue other opportunities but that the cancer ue in Manhattan founded
center will always be in her “heart and soul.” as a meeting spot for suf-
Her brother says in a statement that it takes a team effort fragists more than 90 years
to operate the center and that it’s “bigger than me or ago.
any member of my family.” She died in 2014.q Among those slated to per-
form are Andra Day and
ESPN’s Jemele Hill leaving Common, who will sing
their Grammy- and Oscar-
her job at ‘Sportscenter’ In this Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011 file photo, actor Mark Ruffalo, nominated song “Stand
Up for Something” from the
center, speaks to demonstrators at the Occupy Wall Street film “Marshall.”
NEW YORK (AP) — ESPN says outspoken “Sportscenter” encampment in Zuccotti Park before participating in an anti Ruffalo, a vocal progres-
anchor Jemele Hill is leaving that role to write for a com- Hydraulic fracturing march in New York. sive, said the evening will
pany web site and do occasional on-air commentary. Associated Press be an “inspirational event
Hill attracted attention last year and was briefly suspend- By The Associated Press an evening of speeches where activists and influ-
ed for opinionated messages on social media, including NEW YORK (AP) — Mark and music at “The People’s encers join together to ar-
a reference to President Donald Trump as a “white su- Ruffalo, Lee Daniels, Mi- State of the Union,” billed ticulate a positive vision for
premacist.” The network said Friday that Hill had asked to chael Moore and Whoopi as a “public alternative” to our future, and how we’re
be taken off the 6 p.m. weekday edition of ESPN’s sports Goldberg are among ce- President Donald Trump’s going to win our country
news show. q lebrities who plan to attend first State of the Union ad- back.”q