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...recovery rooms where thoracic-surgery patients were trying to sleep. At the 7 a.m. shift change, the noise level shot up as high as 113 db--about as raucous as a jackhammer. The nurses finally hit on a simple solution that can help anyone get a little quiet time: they closed the door...
...think he hangs out with anybody. He's a quiet guy. That's O.K. Whenever he slips something out under the door, it's very interesting.I had lunch with him once. He ate soup...
...Volvo station wagon for a long day of lessons, camps and therapies. At night, she makes dinner for the family but not for herself. She says she's just too harried. Not until 10 p.m. or so, when the children are in bed and the house is finally quiet, does the speedy Gonzalez relax--if you define relaxing as mopping the floors, doing yet more laundry and reading e-mail until...
The silence, I'm told, is way worse than the snoring. In the middle of the night, you go quiet for a while. Your chest heaves. Nada. Your body tries again. Still nothing. Then, if you're lucky, your brain kicks in and sends out the alarm: without oxygen, it will starve. So your reflexes get your body to rouse; there's a snuffling, wheezing and then a big intake of breath. And then back to normal breathing--or more snoring--until the cycle starts again. And all the while, you're fast asleep, blissfully unaware that anything is going...
...cinema—except during election time. “The American population is like a group of kids. During the election everyone is going out and can do and say whatever they want, but then the bell rings and everyone needs to go back in and be quiet for another four years...