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optionMONSTER submits: By David Russell

Zacks.com submits: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. (HOT) is on an expansion spree. Last week, the company opened its 1000th hotel, the Sheraton Qiandao Lake Resort, located on the shores of China's Qiandao Lake. The lake is also known as the Lake of Thousand Islands.

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Most African-Americans like to pray just before they do it, white Americans like to do it with their pets, Asians tend to do it best and Hispanics fret about work just beforehand.It is sleep and the 2010 Sleep in America poll released Monday by the National Sleep Foundation (NSF) shows that sleep habits differ depending on what ethnic group you belong to.African-Americans have the busiest bedtime routine: three-quarters said they watched television in the hour before going to bed, and only slightly fewer - 71 percent - said they prayed.

Miriam Metzinger submits: Stocks discussed on the lightning round session of Jim Cramer's Mad Money TV Program, Thursday August 19.

Healthy older adults need less sleep than their younger counterparts and, even with less sleep under their nightcaps, are less likely to feel tired during the day, a study published Monday showed.The time spent actually sleeping out of eight hours in bed declined progressively and significantly with age, the study published in SLEEP, the official journal of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society, said.

Economic statistics seem to be confirming the suspicion many have had that the “economic recovery” was merely a reprieve from a drawn-out process of deleveraging and structural changes – a much needed process after decades of ever increasing consumer spending on the back of easy credit and rising asset prices. This reprieve was created by stimulative measures taken by the government and the Federal Reserve, who now both seem low on ammunition.