Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After reaching cruising altitude (35,000 ft.), many passengers took off their shoes, loosened neckties, reached for pillows and stretched out to sleep. Some watched the in-flight movie, Man, Woman and Child, a tearjerker about a married man suddenly discovering that he had fathered a son during an earlier affair. When not serving middle-of-the-night snacks and cocktails, the attendants kept the cabin lights low. The trip to Anchorage was uneventful. Flight 007 touched down at 7:30 a.m. E.D.T. Wednesday (2:30 a.m. in Anchorage...
...Marielitos of Wilshire-Alvarado sleep late. But by 9 p.m., street traffic picks up around the park, where youths stand three deep, bare-chested or in ragged shirts, making deals and scouting for action. For the legitimate merchants who have chosen to tough it out, however, the terror never wanes. Bootblack Carey Smith, 77, who has worked in the district for 25 years, was robbed eight months ago of $630. But he goes on shining shoes at his small outdoor stall. Says he: "They'd just as soon kill you as look at you. You can feel the danger...
...hardly a major university without teams of researchers poking and prodding babies. The number of studies of infant cognition has tripled in the past five years, according to Psychologist Richard Held of M.I.T. A conference of experts in Austin last year heard more than 200 research papers ranging from "Sleep-Wake Transitions and Infant
Unlike the eyes, the baby's ears have been functioning even before birth, and the newborn arrives with a whole set of auditory reactions. As early as the 1960s, tests indicated that babies go to sleep faster to the recorded sound of a human heartbeat or any similarly rhythmic sound. More recent studies indicate that by the time they are born, babies already prefer female voices; within a few weeks, they recognize the sound of their mother's speech...
Young Bill was the class valedictorian and a standout athlete at Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, Calif. He entered Stanford University in 1949 but found it "disagreeable." After a difficult year, he dropped out and enrolled in an upstate New York Augustinian seminary. Allowed only five hours of sleep a night and two hours of conversation in the afternoon, Clark decided the priesthood was not his calling. He tried to return to Stanford, but as he recalls, "the dean was good enough to tell me that I should consider some other line of activity...