Word: withing
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As long as that attitude persists, the national sleep deficit will not be easy to close. Government and businesses can help by formulating more enlightened work rules and schedules. What is needed most of all, though, is a fundamental change in Americans' thinking about the necessity of sleep. A difficult...
Others appear to be getting even less. And that is interfering with their ability to learn, contend teachers, who say they are confronting more and more draggy pupils, even in elementary school. Sleepy youngsters are arriving late to class, forgetting assignments, moving at a snail's pace from task to...
The most common sleep complaint is insomnia. About a third of Americans have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, problems that result in listlessness and loss of alertness during the day. Most of the time the distress is temporary, brought on by anxiety about a problem at work or a...
If any 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...
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BAD TASTE by Jane and Michael Stern (HarperCollins; $29.99). If it weren't for bad taste, most people wouldn't have any taste at all. That seems to be the thesis of this arch and witty catalog of American kitsch. A sampler: Nehru jackets, vanity license plates...