Word: asleep
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...boyfriend for two years--except briefly at a party at which she avoided him--recognizes his car coming up her driveway. She informs us she has no desire to see him. Hears his footsteps coming toward her house. Leaves her window wide open and pretends to be asleep. He enters her bed. She greets him with a kiss. They have intercourse. No scream, no protest. No "no." In retrospect, she concludes, she has been raped...
Fifty-three percent of those surveyed admitted that they fall asleep in classes. Because the survey was largely conducted in section, we can only speculate as to how many respondents claimed untruthfully that they never sleep in class, hoping to avoid the wrath of onlooking TF's. The actual percentage of dozers is probably much higher...
...there are far grimmer effects. Harrowing tales are told by interns and residents, many of whom routinely work 120-hour weeks, including 36 hours at a stretch. Some admit that mistakes are frighteningly common. A California resident fell asleep while sewing up a woman's uterus -- and toppled onto the patient. In another California case, a sleepy resident forgot to order a * diabetic patient's nightly insulin shot and instead prescribed another medication. The man went into a coma. Compassion can also be a casualty. One young doctor admitted to abruptly cutting off the questions...
...times I've been so sleepy I was nodding off as we were taxiing to get into takeoff position." As the workplace becomes ever more technologically sophisticated, the price of disaster is higher. "So many more people can be hurt when a train engineer or a nuclear technician falls asleep in 1990 than when a stagecoach driver fell asleep in 1890," notes psychologist Merrill Mitler, director of sleep research at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, Calif...
...most common sleep complaint is insomnia. About a third of Americans have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, problems that result in listlessness and loss of alertness during the day. Most of the time the distress is temporary, brought on by anxiety about a problem at work or a sudden family crisis. But sometimes sleep difficulties extend for months and years. Faced with a chronic situation, insomniacs frequently medicate themselves with alcohol or drugs. Doctors warn that in most cases sleeping pills should not be taken for longer than two or three weeks. Such drugs can lose their effectiveness with...