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...Crimson laxwomen fell asleep during the opening minutes of Saturday's game at Princeton and woke up too late in the first half to stop the offensive momentum that carried the Tigers to a 10-6 victory in New Jersey...
...Miranda. She is the loveliest among them. The Frinch schoolmistress compares her to a Botticelli angel as she jumps a stream and disappears between some trees, leading her classmates toward oblicion. They remove their black stockings and shoes to feel the rock on their bare feet. They fall asleep languidly on the warm rock, awaken, and drowsily walk away from the world...
...outside only for interrogation. "It was so crowded that you had to sleep standing up, and when I got out for a while I could not sleep lying down," Toai says. Hieu adds, "They leave very bright lights on the celling all night long to prevent you from falling asleep, and there isn't enough air to breathe--under these conditions the prisoners wish to have any opportunity to do heavy work outside...
People start falling asleep early. By flipping a few panels, the sofas and card table turn into more sleeping platforms. By 2 a.m. there are sleeping bags as far as the eye can see. As the passenger stumbles among them a voice hisses, "There is room here!" It's Adam. He whispers that he is a biologist from M.I.T. Maybe that explains the scrape. He was "designing an incurable virus," he says, when he realized what he was doing. He's been on the road for several weeks sorting things out. Daybreak and breakfast in Arizona. Sleeping bags...
...cribs with no discernible signs of distress. Crib death, as SIDS is commonly called, claims more babies between the ages of one month and one year than any other affliction. Doctors now believe that one cause is sleep apnea, the unexplained tendency of many babies to stop breathing while asleep. If that respiratory interruption continues for several minutes a baby can die of asphyxiation, unless a watchful parent rushes to shake the infant into breathing again...