Word: sleeps
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Waterbeds, a splashy sales item among the flower children of the '60s, have found a new constituency: premature babies. Studies have shown that preemies sleep better, grow faster and generally seem more contented when their incubators are fitted with waterbeds. Researchers at Stanford University also found that gently oscillating waterbeds reduce breathing difficulties and encourage normal heartbeat in sleeping preemies, perhaps because the pulsations mimic some aspects of the uterine environment. Preemie intensive care units, notes one researcher, tend to be "noisy, bright, loud places with constant activity. Anyone who has spent time there can see that the babies...
...dictator, he feebly insists that "it is easy for me to end my life." It would indeed have been, if Hitler could have guessed how his malignant legend would grow. Our addiction to horror shows has kept him with us-a dark star over the world's troubled sleep. -By Richard Corliss
...hardly matters that Diva's plot components do not parse. The best thrillers rarely traffic in linear common sense; nobody, including Raymond Chandler, ever figured out who killed the chauffeur in The Big Sleep. But they did evoke a world so cohesively ominous that when life and death eyeballed each other at the denouement, it mattered which one blinked first. No such laws operate in Diva. In an early scene, we see a harried woman trudging barefoot through a Metro station; she recognizes two men-a skinheaded punk and a swarthy rake-and smiles enigmatically as they pursue...
Their acquisitions in turn have stimulated new interest, in every sense of the word. A first edition of D.H. Lawrence's 1915 The Rainbow bought in 1960 for $25 sold 17 years later for $200. Raymond Chandler's classic whodunit The Big Sleep now brings $2,500, up 150% in five years, and John Irving's early novel Setting Free the Bears, bought twelve years ago for $5.95, is worth...
Circadian dysrhythmia, the medical name for jet lag, is a recognized disorder. Zooming through time zones upsets biological clocks and desynchronizes functions such as sleep, hunger, elimination and sex. The body resists its forcible relocation in the external world with numerous warning signals: sleepiness, insomnia, dimmed vision, throat discomfort and irritability. A pack-a-day smoker, Haig also would be affected by high altitudes more than the nonsmoker. Some studies indicate more disturbing effects of jet megatravel: a diminution in mental ability, and mild amnesia about recent events. The heart undergoes a special series of reactions during intercontinental travel. Levels...