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Narcoleptics go into REM sleep the stage of sleep during which dreams occur much sooner than normal patients, and more often during the night. There is also another form of the disorder known as cataplexy, in which the victim loses muscle tone and control of the body when experiencing strong emotions, such as excitement or anger. Stakes tells of one patient who, when he tried to punish his children by whipping them was unable to do so because when he tried to remove his belt he became "very limp and weak...
...Sack Theatres, the ICA will be free to screen film art work at one of the eight new cinemas to be built by Sack at Copley Place. Ross believes that film has been and will be one of the most important mediums for artists. Another major change will occur with scheduling at the ICA. Soon exhibitions will run in a more linear direction through time as opposed to space. The ICA's current building on Boylston St. across from the Hynes Auditorium, is what Sellars calls "a terribly thrilling space." But it is also a terribly small space, and Ross...
...contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being croded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur-others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments...
...decade. Now they do not expect metric to prevail before the year 2000. "It will be a generational change," says David Goldman, head of the National Bureau of Standards' metric office. "Only when youngsters who learned metrics in school reach upper-level management will the change really occur." Nor can the metric campaign expect much help. Though Deputy Secretary of Commerce Guy Fiske warned that American industry faces increasing resistance in trying to sell nonmetric goods abroad, the Administration, to save money and foster voluntary compliance, has sharply cut funds for promoting metric...
...series of dramatic climaxes, but as a mundane process of day-to-day living in which the crucial events happen unobtrusively in the background. Thus, though The Seagull includes a failed and successful suicide, a seduction, an abandonment, and the death of an infant, all of these melodramas occur offstage--mostly between the third and fourth acts. What we are shown instead is the residue of these events, the effect each incident has on the characters...