And it turns out, that both in humans and in animals - this has been actually very well documented - sleep-deprived animals and sleep-hungry people, turn out to be hungry for more than sleep.
What followed lights-out at the Sleep Disorders Center was, predictably enough, not sleep. (Imagine for a moment going to bed in a fuse box.) Every time I moved, I got tangled in a wire.
It won a wide following for offering practical and moral help to people who were coming off the land and out of the armed forces and trying to find work, food and a place to sleep in Japan's bombed-out cities.
Among them is Pfizer, which handed the agency the ad assignment for its much-anticipated sleep aid Indiplon, due out later this year.
While Big Ten football is turning out to be as sleep-inducing as whatever Rip took before nodding off, it's impossible to deny that the ND defense is for real.
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But with the recruits' doors gone, lights-out in barracks also meant lights-out in the halls if the recruits were to get any sleep.
Other kid-friendly touches: trundle beds that pull out for those little dears who refuse to sleep on the top bunk, junior-eye level peepholes in the guest room doors, and a built-in potty seat that cleverly folds over the regular seat if needed (the Legoland park is targeted at the 2 to 12 set).
But unless the militants are somehow rooted out, it will become a sleep-depriving issue for Mr Bush on the campaign trail next year.
It is not that people think out-of-town MPs should sleep in the streets, but they do grumble at providing them with the cleaning women and flat-screen televisions that many would love to be able to afford themselves.
Unlike their predecessors, these new drugs may be approved for use day in and day out--and they could change the way we view sleep in the same way Prozac and its ilk altered the public discussion about depression and mental illness.
David Friedberg is out to change that and possibly make sleep sounder for thousands of small-business owners.
But during a light, long-haul flight, this production is inhibited, disrupting sleep, throwing the body completely out of sync and leading to jet lag.
When you need to take a break, close the lid and VAIO goes into an energy-efficient deep sleep, keeping your data stored safely for up to 90 days1 without running out of power.
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Jawbone, best known for its wireless Bluetooth headsets, brought out its UP health band in 2011, a fashion-able bracelet that monitors sleep and daytime activity, with its data uploadable to a smartphone app.
They have the Army Field Manual, which has - lays out specific treatments that are barred, including mock drowning and things like that, sleep deprivation, food deprivation.
Kirby Desmaris, 26, along with her husband and her 18-month-old daughter, Georgiah, have staked out the park all week though they sleep at home in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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Only 35 years ago, he points out, Indians were forbidden to sleep in San Cristobal, walk on its pavements or look whiter-skinned Mexicans in the eye.
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