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...while this idea may seem to provide a scientific basis for subliminal learning, students who look forward to acquiring knowledge while they sleep should not be hopeful. Schacter has found that subjects who were exposed to auditory information while asleep are unable to remember it upon waking...
...young Oliveresque son Arlis (played by Jerry Swindall as a child and by Dennis Quaid as an adult) to break into and steal from people's homes. The scheme is this: a family finds a mute, apparently lost child on its doorstep one day, and takes him in. While asleep, the young Arlis creeps downstairs to let his father in, and together, they loot the house, sneaking off into the night...
Others rent hotel rooms on their parents' credit cards, and sleep six or more to a room. Invariably someone stumbles into the room, pukes on one bed, and falls asleep in the other. Fifteen minutes later, he empties his stomach on that...
...offensive line put in some of the best Harvard offensive performances of the day when pass blocking for Giardi, but, when it came time to run, seemed to fall asleep. Even when they did open holes, however, the running backs failed to either hit them or hit them with force. Unlike in the Lafayette game, the backs seemed to take it east-west, rather than north-south, leading to a number of big-yard losses...
...maddening complexity of the Altman case illustrates the difficulty of even mounting a prosecution of B.C.C.I.'s principals and their associates. The case dragged on through 45 witnesses and reams of documents -- 15,000 pages of transcript in all. The material was so numbingly complex that some jurors fell asleep listening to it. Meanwhile an agile defense team managed to shred many prosecution witnesses, several of whom were former B.C.C.I. officers. So confident was the defense team that it did not call a single witness...