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Article: Why teens need more sleep: find out how you can fit more sleep into your overscheduled life (and we don't mean sleeping on the bus!).(focus)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
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- November 1, 2003
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Brrrrraaaaaiing! (Hit snooze button.)
No, it is not Monday morning at 6 a.m. School? There's no school today--it's a holiday! Don't move a muscle. Yeah, that's it, a holiday! What holiday? Ummm--oh, yeah, it's National I'm So Tired I Could Cry Day. So sleep, sleeeep, sleeeeeeep, that's it....
BrrrrraaaaaiING!! (Hit snooze button with big shoe.)
Sound familiar? If your brain and body are getting together to trick you into sleeping late, maybe it's time to admit there's a problem: You aren't getting enough sleep! For millions of American teens, running on empty is getting to be a way of life--and it's a pattern more and more teens carry over into ...