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...security officers, but finally they let me through. This was 4 a.m. I felt tired. For some hours, I felt very bad and very tired. But I overcame it. The result was that when we flew back in the afternoon, I don't remember even the takeoff. I fell asleep immediately on the plane, and they could barely wake me up when we landed at Ben Gurion [airport, near Tel Aviv]. But it was only one hour...
Moderation can be tough, though, especially with hundreds of cable channels. Emory Woodard, an author of the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Media in the Home survey, says many parents are asleep at the remote. "A significant proportion of parents," he says, "can't name even one program they would discourage their children from watching...
...adults in the black and gray street who have been reduced to figures out of Munch's "Scream"-both elongated and hunched with hollow eyes. Shortly after the burial of her father, a railroad clerk, Neel painted "Dead Father" (1946): a gentle-looking man, slightly too stiff to be asleep, lies in the bed of his coffin...
Most sections have more than 20 people, and are run a lot like a high school class. With the cost of attending school at $35,400 per year, half of us end up paying almost $5,000 for the privilege of falling asleep in Sanders Theatre during lectures or sitting in the back of a crammed section room straining to see the blackboard...
Wulsin, who was asleep when the alumni office called, didn't find out that he had won until he woke...