Word: stupor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you put a person in a situation with virtually no variety to their environmental stimulation and no meaningful way of occupying themselves, their mental state moves toward stupor and eventually delirium," Grassian said...
SNOOZE ALARM Talk about a drunken stupor. Doctors say not getting enough sleep may dull your senses as much as drinking does. Folks with sleep apnea--a common disorder in which sufferers momentarily awaken throughout the night because breathing stops--did worse on 3 out of 7 tests of reaction time than those whose blood-alcohol level would make them too drunk to drive in 15 states. Could ordinary insomniacs run into the same problems? Probably, doctors...
...over northwestern Turkey, in the hundreds of square miles savaged by the 7.4-level temblor, people have begun to emerge--slowly, fitfully--from their stupor. Turkish authorities, whose first response was a scandalous paralysis, have moved into action, directing relief where it is needed, working to forestall a second-wave tragedy of infectious disease. Survivors, many of them at first unwilling to budge from outside their fallen homes, hoping to salvage something--if not a loved one, perhaps some hoarded savings--are drifting into tent cities. Amid the uncertainty, both the leaders and the governed seem clear on one thing...
...Then Nancy was tested for allergies, a process that required her to be medication free. "It was like the sky was blue again," says Nancy, who at 18 is still off drugs but sees a counselor occasionally. "The colors came back. It was a total change from the medication stupor. Everything wasn't peachy, but I was able to appreciate doing things again...
...view of the rich getting skewered by the would-be rich is curiously sedate. The reason to watch is Lauren Bacall; she has the glamour, gravity and great bones to give the elder Doris vigorous life just as she is dying from too many drugs. This is strength within stupor...