Word: insomnia
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...months, the 44-year-old leprosy patient lay in Jerusalem's Rothschild Hadassah University Hospital, plagued with insomnia and skin eruptions, muscle and joint pains, and high fever-the devilish collection of leprosy-caused symptoms known as lepra reaction. In a last-ditch effort to ease his pain and that of five similarly afflicted patients, Israeli Dermatologists Felix Sagher and Jakob Sheskin decided last November to try an unorthodox remedy: thalidomide...
...Insomnia keeps him pacing the floor un til 3 or 4 a.m. after night games. Insecurity keeps him melancholy. "I'm not a failure," he explains, "but I'm not exactly a success, either." A sportswriter once asked Lopez what he did for fun. "Fun?" Al protested. "How can you have any fun managing...
...Winner Argerich the ordeal was withering. Midway in a concert last week, a doctor was summoned backstage for Argerich, who was suffering from insomnia and near exhaustion. Nevertheless, she came onstage and swept through Chopin's Scherzo in C-Sharp Minor with a fleet and fiery abandon that left the audience gasping. Though a slight, delicate girl, she played with an almost masculine power and assertiveness. For more introspective passages, she tempered her mercurial attack with a limpid, poetic tone and subtlety of phrasing that won her the added honor as best interpreter of Chopin's mazurkas...
...auto-accessories dealer who smashes his car for love. If the reader is the least bit wakeful, he goes on to meet Consolina, the servant girl who admires blond men and Clara, the fortuneteller's fickle daughter. The face begins to ache from all the faint smiling, and insomnia sets...
...ahead is staggering. It is, as one Brazilian calls it, a "mandate for insomnia." Brazil's economy is an inflationary wreck, its politics a shambles. Reform will demand sacrifice. It will be up to Castello Branco and his government to justify the high price that Brazilians may have...