Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets, we too need disarmament. Eisenhower was right to say the problem of defense is how far can you go without destroying from within what you're trying to protect from without. Already we've gone too far when, on any given night, 100,000 American children go to sleep homeless. And we house our missiles so much better than we do our homeless...
...attraction be? It is, after all, a three-day uphill trek to the foot of the final peak, and then a predawn slog of two practically vertical miles to the top. On the way, walkers are alternately roasted by the tropical sun and chilled by low alpine temperatures; they sleep in unheated, unlighted huts, wash in ice-cold water and, after five days, emerge from the mountain dirty, haggard and exhausted. "Maybe the only satisfaction comes from looking back on it afterward," suggests climber Matt Claman, 29, a lawyer from Juneau...
...thing I can't stand, it's a quitter.' I have heard her say that all my life. Now, lying in bed, coming awake in the dark, I feel the fury of her energy fighting the good-for-nothing idler within me who wants to go back to sleep instead of tackling the brave...
During Follini's subterranean stay, her sense of time had elongated. Her "day" extended to 25 hours, then to 48 hours. She tended to sleep for 22 to 24 hours, then burst into activity for up to 30 hours. She ate less frequently and lost 17 lbs. Her menstrual period stopped. In short, her internal biological clocks had gone out of whack...
...York City unleashed a tactical narcotics team to make | undercover drug buys, allowing police to slap dealers with felony charges for selling narcotics. The result: a 30% upswing in drug arrests. And the ripple effect: severe overcrowding at the city's squalid holding pen on Rikers Island. Prisoners often sleep on the floor in receiving areas where 90 men may share a single toilet...