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...everywhere. The thing that happened that was frightening was not so much related - maybe peripherally related - to the Year of Yes, to the dating stuff. Somebody, who I maybe knew, broke into my apartment towards the end of the year, and just sort of - I was there, I was asleep - watched me sleep, apparently. Took nothing. Just turned on all of the lights, stayed in my apartment, and broke my lock. That was scary. I thought, is this one of the people I had dated? I don't know who it was. It did no harm, but terrified me. That...
...cards dates back to my experience at 2003’s Harvard-Yale game. I was staying in Branford, one of Yale’s residential colleges, with a friend from high school. Returning from some late-night revelry, it so happened that my host was already asleep. And so it was that I found myself locked out of the entryway. I patiently waited for an Eli to come by so that I could be swiped in. Several crimson-colored sweatshirts passed me by before I found a gentleman wearing a white t-shirt with a picture of a bulldog...
...sexton, climbs up narrow and steep staircases, ascends a thin metal ladder, and smashes a half-ton clapper into Harvard’s two-ton bell, high up in the church tower. Down below, three dorms full of freshman students cover their ears and try to fall back asleep...
...mail and it can be wonderfully helpful to relationships. On the other hand, I have a patient who calls her husband's computer his plastic mistress because they hardly ever make love anymore because he's always on the computer. By the time he comes to bed, she's asleep. Prioritizing is more important than ever. We still need the human moment-the face to face communication...
...temporarily--by drinking coffee, taking a walk around the block or chatting with office mates. But then they find themselves nodding off in meetings or, worse, behind the wheel. Those short snatches of unconsciousness are what researchers call microsleep, a sure sign of sleep deprivation. "If people are falling asleep because 'the room was hot' or 'the meeting was boring,' that's not coping with sleep loss. I would argue that they're eroding their productive capability," says Dinges...