Word: sleeps
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...Napoleon said, "Let China Sleep. The day she awakes all the world will be sorry." Nearly 200 years later, the world is divided: some are indeed sorry to witness China's re-emergence, but others are quite happy. Theodore Mathias London...
...confessional genre--A Million Little Peepees--is of a piece with a trend in niched America: alternative media for parents. Alt-rockers They Might Be Giants, Lisa Loeb and the Del Fuegos' Dan Zanes make CDs for their aging fans' tots. The Rockabye Baby! CD series lulls Junior to sleep with covers of songs by the Cure, Radiohead and Tool. The stylish magazine Cookie is marketed to "modern" (i.e., urbane and moneyed) parents who would rather expose their children to Eames than Elmo. Babies may change your life, these media tell us. But there's no reason they need...
...Napoleon said, "Let China sleep. the day she awakes all the world will be sorry." Nearly 200 years later, the world is divided: some are indeed sorry to witness China's re-emergence, but others are quite happy. Theodore Mathias London...
...called for special indoctrination and questioning by militant guards. The guards used these occasions to abuse me verbally and to tell me I would be shot soon or kept at the detention house for the rest of my life. One morning, after coughing all night and being unable to sleep because of a headache, I could barely get out of bed. I asked for a doctor. The guard gave me two aspirin tablets and told me to drink plenty of water. I waited for the doctor, but he did not come. When I asked for him again, the guard said...
...daughter?'' ''Nothing has happened to her.'' ''Do you mean to tell me that you know for a fact my daughter is alive and well at this moment?'' ''Why should she be otherwise?'' The guard walked away. After a few weeks of anxiety, with little food and hardly any sleep, I became sick once more, with a high fever and delirium. I was again taken to the prison hospital. I recovered, but then I had a bad hemorrhage. When the bleeding was brought under control, I was taken to the hospital for an examination. The ''doctor'' was a young woman...