BY DOUG GRAHAM | Staff writer Summer vacation may be over, but the season made sure its presence was felt Wednesday as excessive heat warnings greeted tens of thousands of schoolchildren in Baton Rouge. The new school calendar arrived with a number of changes, including a new elementary school created by the merger of two others, and the return of Capitol High as a neighborhood school. “I love Capitol, all their festivities,” said De-yona Jackson, a senior. “They always make the school year fun.” In his push to empty death row, Gov. John Bel Edwards has directed the state Pardon Board to decide whether to grant clemency to nearly all of the inmates facing the death penalty. The board last month turned aside applications from 56 of the 57 death row inmates, saying none of them were eligible for clemency because of a just-issued advisory opinion from Attorney General Jeff Landry. Edwards used his executive authority to tell the five-member board to put the applications back on its docket. Any death row inmate granted clemency would be sentenced to life in prison. None would be released now. More than one-third of American adults don't get the recommended seven hours of sleep each night, according to a study by the CDC. People with regularly short sleep duration are more prone to cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes and obesity-related health risks. But what about people who just can't seem to get enough sleep? Dr. Prachi Singh, a researcher at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, has been awarded a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Health to determine how intermittent fasting can improve their metabolic health. | 