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Article: Chronic Jet Lag: Small Price for a Full-Throttle Globetrotter to Pay
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 27, 1994
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J ust as I suspected, there seems to be such a thing as chronic jet
lag. And I undoubtedly suffer from it after 12 years of
full-throttle globetrotting.
There's no reason you should feel sorry for me, of course,
because the sleepless daze in which I sometimes stumble is a small
price to pay for all the marvels I've seen as Sun-Times travel editor
during 211 trips and 1,846 nights on the road ranging across all
seven continents.
I may be among the 2 million to 3 million frequent travelers
who fall into the most severe area of travel-related sleep disorder
known as ``chronic jet lag.'' That's according to Dr. Timothy Monk,
a sleep expert from the University of Pittsburgh who attended the ...