Word: insomnia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their long separation, the two Berlins have acquired markedly different personalities. West Berlin (pop. 2.1 million) is a city with insomnia. By day the streets hum as dark-suited businessmen brush impatiently past roller skaters clad in little more than G-strings, and camera-laden tourists gawk at punk couples in Dracula makeup and matching spiky hairdos. So fast is the tempo that when a quarrel erupted recently between two West Berliners, the story goes, one snapped at the other, "Slap yourself for me. I don't have time." At night the city grows more manic still, with revelers jamming...
...women and men with anorexia and bulimia are on physical roller coster rides. The physical repercussions can be deadly at times, though for bulimics the prognosis is usually brighter. Anorexics at various stages can experience a cessation of menstruation, insomnia, hypothermia, fatigue and depression. Bulimics suffer dehydration, internal bleeding, enlargement of salivary glands and severe loss of potassium which can lead to heart or kidney failure, says Honnet...
...been capable hitters, but none ever twirled a bat more eagerly than Gooden. Once, in a six-inning Little League game, he struck out 16 of 18 batters and hit two home runs. But the homers were what kept him awake all night. (He is prone to delight and insomnia.) "Sometimes in school I'd come in from right field or third base to relieve, and maybe even go back again. That was the best." Before Floyd and Dwight could be seniors together at Hillsborough, Youmans moved with his family to California. For Gooden, the mound felt lonelier than ever...
...great wealth named Beaujean came to the same dead end as Marcos with his Swiss gold and his ruined kidneys. "He owned amazing gardens," the historian Miriam Beard wrote of Beaujean, "but he was too fat to walk in them . . . He had countless splendid bedrooms and suffered from insomnia . . . a monstrous, bald, bloated old man in a bed sculptured and painted to resemble a gilded basket of roses...
While China's leaders do not believe that masturbation results in hairy palms and blindness, the book states that the practice can lead to "dizziness, insomnia, too much dreaming, exhaustion, aching in the back and waist, worsening of the memory, absentmindedness, lack of appetite, palpitation, shortness of breath, headache, dimmed vision, mental decline." Girls, Be Vigilant! helpfully lists some of the traditional remedies for illicitly roaming hands, including the cultivation of a "rhythmically arranged life" and good habits such as avoiding tight clothes and not sleeping on your stomach...