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...next room, also hooked up to a variety of monitors and a recording device, is a 30-year old woman who suspects that she has insomnia. She arrived at about 9 p.m. the usual hour for patients to enter the lab for overnight stays, and her vital signs will be recorded until 6 a.m. as well. She is an outpatient, in the clinic just for the night, and unlike the sleep apnea patient, she requires no supervision from the lab's two-man team...
...Republican worthy, is also determined to hang around and reach for the brass ring. He is a year younger than Bush. But by 1988, he too will be on the threshold of those golden years when a man might prefer shuffleboard to hand-to-hand combat with Democrats and overnight flights to distant capitals...
...absence of three thumb-size rubber seals, known as O rings, which are normally fitted to magnetized plugs on oil lines in each of the L-1011's Rolls-Royce engines. According to Eastern's maintenance procedure, the oil plugs with their O rings are removed overnight after each jetliner flight so that the condition of the engine lubricant can be checked. The plugs that were returned to Flight 855 lacked the O ring seals, each of which costs about 10?, causing an oil leak under high-pressure operation, which eventually led to the near fatal engine seizures...
Then Prins set out to fill the new buses. He installed sleeper seats for Kansas City ski buffs taking the overnight bus to Colorado resorts. He also put video games in some buses and movies on others. Prins' biggest revenue booster was special, cut-rate tours. Example: for $49.95, passengers can take a two-day trip from Des Moines to Minneapolis, complete with dinner and one night at a good hotel. Greyhound and Trailways charge more than $80 for the same round trip, without the hotel or the meal, and airfare is $100 one way. Jefferson now offers tours...
...mystique seems in part to derive from breaking the law. "The risk taking is luring them in," says Antoinette Helfrich, coordinator of the University of Colorado's busy coke-abuse clinic. Even when Steve, 30, a Miami land salesman, was arrested for possession and found himself in jail overnight, it was, like, you know, a real trip. "I was with vagrants, drunks and car thieves," he says. "It was unreal, bizarre, like The Twilight Zone. "The glamour of outlawry, with the ante upped considerably, is also an attraction for many dealers and even some smugglers. Says a DEA official...