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Article: Sleep or Die // How Insomniac Lifestyle Can Lead to Disaster
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- May 26, 1996
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Sleep Thieves
An Eye-Opening Exploration Into the Science and Mysteries of Sleep.
By Stanley Coren. Free Press. $21.95.
The Enchanted World of Sleep
By Peretz Lavie. Yale University Press. $27.50.
In the hectic age of beepers, cellular telephones, Internet surfing,
the "red-eye" and 24-hour shopping, a good night's sleep has become
passe. Who can sleep with so much opportunity? Who can snooze when
Jones is burning the midnight modem? Who can risk 50 winks with so
many global markets to consider?
Our new heroes are insomniacs who wrest 20 hours of work from a
24-hour day. Feverish and restless, we brag about how little we
sleep, how tired we are, how tough we are, how we can take it.
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