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While some might call it a sickness, I considered it a talent: I can sleep anywhere, anytime, on a moment’s notice. I even fall asleep between subway stops...

Author: By Stephen M. Marks, | Title: Dream Venti | 8/5/2005 | See Source »

...lies curled up as if only asleep, knees drawn to her chest, arms wrapped around them, tucked snugly in a nook between the coral boulders. But this woman is long dead, and her bones are as white as the coral branches that have crept among them like tree roots. Around her, lying in other cavities in the sharp rock and covered by volcanic ash, are the resting places of more human bones, all arranged in different positions of repose. Bats wheel above on the wind, which rushes through the coconut palms and sets the blue tarpaulin covering the graves flapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Riddle of the Bones | 7/25/2005 | See Source »

...Boyd will win 20 games this season, and surely the Sox will score 900 runs . . . Surely we?ll finish ahead of the Yanks, surely we?ll win the pennant . . .Surely we?ll be World Champions, just like we were only yesterday, in 1918 . . .? One by one, BLOHARDS fells asleep. When they awoke, they were back in New York, exiles again, forced anew to take what nourishment they might from those unreasonable dreams of hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Brief History of the BLOHARDS | 7/22/2005 | See Source »

Over the next several days, Hill used his camera judiciously, snapping pictures only when he was certain the guards were fast asleep. "They were vigilant enough, but there were only two of them the whole time, with no relief," said Hill, who has been harsh in his criticism of Amal since his return to the U.S. "They weren't lazy, just exhausted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Postscripts: Photo Finish | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...just suddenly realized that the blue patch at me feet was water coming in," recalls Simon Le Bon. So began the ordeal at sea that the lead singer of the rock band Duran Duran calls "the worst experience of my life." Le Bon, 26, was asleep in the cabin of his 77-ft., $1.8 million yacht Drum during the final leg of the international Admiral's Cup race about two miles off the coast of Cornwall last week when the keel snapped off and the craft capsized. The singer and five of the 24-man crew were trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 26, 1985 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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