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Millions of Americans make this complaint, but how many do anything about it? Sleep is a biological imperative, but do people consider it as vital as food or drink? Not in today's rock-around-the-clock world. Not in a society in which mothers work, stores don't close, assembly lines never stop, TV beckons all the time, and stock traders have to keep up with the action in Tokyo. For too many Americans, sleep has become a luxury that can be sacrificed or a nuisance that must be endured...
...week, people can be seriously impaired. "Driving home on Friday is a greater risk than on Monday, when you haven't been deprived of sleep all week," says Mary Carskadon, director of chronobiology at E.P. Bradley Hospital in Providence. And stopping at a bar with colleagues for a postwork drink can make the situation worse; studies show that it takes less alcohol to make people drunk when they are tired...
...nation can be said to be suffering greater sleep loss than the U.S., it may be Japan. Officeworkers in Tokyo often commute for an hour or more, arriving at their desks at 9 a.m. and staying until 8 p.m. or later. Then they go out to eat and drink with colleagues, an essential part of the job, and catch the last train home at midnight. Workers get only 113 days off a year, compared with Americans' 134 and Germans' 145. Exhausted Japanese can be seen sleeping everywhere: on subways and trains, in elevators, at concerts and baseball games, and during...
...came in here one day after a job interview wearing a jacket and a tie. A guy in a leather jacket came up to me with his two buddies and said, `Why don't you buy me a drink?' I said, `Why?' He said, `Because you look rich.' I told him this jacket probably cost less than your $300 leather jacket, and he just shut up." Mitchell says the confrontation did not frighten him away from...
...that the new surge of students is nothing new for the Bow. They tell how back in the seventies, the pub was dominated by Arlington kids and live music was enjoyed by locals and students alike. And they mention with pride the names of Harvard students who used to drink at the pub and have since made...