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                    [Title] => This sleep-deprived nation
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One major phenomenon that has been gradually eroding the health of the Philippines is lack of sleep.

[DatePublished] => 2015-09-25 10:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 771619 [Title] => We were there! [Summary] =>

You died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.                Colossians 3:3

[DatePublished] => 2012-01-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Daily Bread [SectionUrl] => daily-bread [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 12178 [Title] => Endeavour mission hit by apparent shuttle damage [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-08-11 13:11:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 11671 [Title] => NASA Endeavour sends first teacher into space [Summary] => [DatePublished] => 2007-08-09 13:23:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 92169 [Title] => Cinema as the only absolute national language [Summary] => Have you heard the anecdote about the film critic who wrote a "smashing review?"

It goes like this: After writing a rather critical review, she meets the director in a party. The guy, then cradling a guitar, looks up, sees her, stands up and hits her with the guitar.

It seems like the stuff you’d see only in the celluloid flicks, but here’s the catch: it really happened – to an esteemed critic, no less!

Today, Christa Maerker looks back at that incident with fond amusement.
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