Word: sleeps
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...them. From Maine's Acadia National Park to Zion National Park in Utah and beyond, 7 million recreational vehicles will be on the road. They range from small folding trailers that barely accommodate four people and cost about $2,500 to sumptuous 30-ft. motor coaches that comfortably sleep six or more and are laden with microwave ovens, walnut paneling and air conditioners, all for a neat...
...child). Doctors refer to the short-lived suffering of childbirth or surgery or even a toothache as "acute pain"; it is terrible at the time, but ultimately it passes. For untold millions, however, pain does not pass. It sings on through the night, month after month, overwhelming sleep, stifling pleasure, shrinking experience, until there is nothing but pain. This is chronic pain, and its sufferers are legion: there are more than 36 million arthritics in the U.S.; there are 70 million with agonizing back pain; about 20 million who suffer from blinding migraines; millions more who are racked by diseases...
...sling were holding it in place. The left hand has been used so infrequently that the muscles have visibly wasted away. Although the nails are beautifully manicured, the skin on her hand is paper dry. Daubing on lotion simply hurts too much. She looks weary. It is hard to sleep, she says, when "you feel as if you have a knife slicing into...
...whirlpool and massage, are particularly useful for back pain, which is often compounded by muscular weakness. Before Maureen Brennan, 37, of Helena, Mont., arrived at the Seattle pain clinic for treatment of her back problem, she was confined to a wheelchair and was spending $180 a week on narcotics, sleeping pills and antidepressants. An accident four years earlier had ruptured five discs in her spine. Seven operations had failed to relieve the pain, and her weight had dropped from 160 lbs. to 81. After Seattle's three-week program of intensive physical therapy and psychological counseling (at a cost...
...brain that hatched Gremlins was 21 years old at the time and productively disturbed. In the summer of 1981, Chris Columbus, a former student at the New York University Film School, was living in a loft in the garment district of Manhattan. "When I went to sleep at night," he recalls, "I could hear mice scurrying along the floor. I slept with my arm draped over the side of the bed, hanging just above floor level, and I kept having this nightmare of waking up with a mouse nibbling on my fingers. That's how I got the idea...