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...Life and Loves, published a half-century ago, Frank Harris relates that he discovered that if he wished to have dreams of sex, he kept thinking about sex until he fell asleep. Later he applied this method to learning German. Harris found that by studying before sleep he learned more than he did by studying early the next morning since his mind, while he was asleep, was still active...
...intensive man hunt code-named Operation Scorpio-was the most recently captured: Bernabe Buscayno, 32, alias Commander Dante, a veteran guerrilla who rose from a peasant background to become commander in chief of the N.P.A. He had been arrested only the week before-with humiliating ease -while asleep at his family's rural home. Buscayno was visiting his two-week-old daughter (named Malaya, "free") and his wife Mila, who had been released from detention in June and apparently served as an unwitting lure. Army soldiers closed in at 3 a.m. and Buscayno surrendered without a fight. He walked...
...looked to them like a hot prospect. "It seemed like a natural," says Parker. "A movie parents could take their children to and not fall asleep." Recalls Marshall: "We'd talk to some money people, tell them we had a great idea-a gangster movie. 'Terrific.' they'd say. Even better, they liked the idea of a musical. Then we'd tell them, 'Yeah, the best part is it's going to be all kids,' and they'd cough a little and say, 'Right, lookit...
...crowded hospital in Cotabato, Cara Gausman, 22, is now recovering from a deep gash in her head. "I was asleep," she said. "Then everything hit my head-the water, the walls. About five minutes, maybe two minutes, I don't know, in the water, grabbing for wood, grabbing for anything. It was dark and under water. Afterward there were no more houses. Everything's gone. My brother's gone." Other survivors told of escaping the waves by running to the hillsides or clinging to coconut trees. One woman told of seeing her father swept...
...dark hours before dawn, while his pregnant wife Crystal lies asleep, Warren Zevon struggles to compose a symphony in his backyard studio in North Hollywood. It is an ambitious undertaking for a man who by day is a successful rock songwriter. "When I was 13, I got an autograph from Igor Stravinsky," Zevon recalls. That inspired him to start teaching himself harmony and counterpoint and even to bring a few fledgling compositions to the master's home for his inspection. "When puberty hit, I turned to rock," Zevon goes on. "I could see that when the average attention span...