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  • While I do my best to stay awake, once those soothing bath crystals take effect I am powerless against sleep's gentle caress, and even though my helper monkey, Vito, is under strict instructions to wake me before midnight he often cannot find me amidst all the bubbles.

    Nuggets of Wisdom: The Art of Crap Curation BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • The most dramatic evidence of sleep's importance to memory is found in people with obstructive sleep apnea OSA.

    Deepak Chopra: Weekly Health Tip: Sleep Strengthens Your Memory Deepak Chopra 2010

  • And then there's the sound — the echo, the repeating, the morning bird-greeting that lives in sleep's limbo.

    The Sound -- The Echo Liz McClendon 2010

  • So it makes sense - you're young, you're training hard - that additional sleep's going to provide additional benefit.

    Want To Get Faster, Smarter? Sleep 10 Hours 2010

  • At night in these hills, nature's nocturnal embrace is of an unbounded blackness, not the comforting blinkers of sleep's threshold, but an opaque blanket that renders the eyes useless and the mind too active.

    Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed 2010

  •            The boys came in together, rubbing sleep's grit from the corners of their eyes and split the last of the bread.

    Settled 2010

  • I wanted like a big feast of it before getting my passport stamped, my brothers, at sleep's frontier and the stripy shest lifted to let me through.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • But a few big topics Andy failed to cover, though, are sleep's impact on:

    Dr. Michael J. Breus: Andy Rooney On Sleep 2009

  • [To our health and sleep's detriment, bedroom's have become info-entertainment centers, which they are not.]

    Janet Kinosian: Feng Shui Yourself to Sleep 2009

  • And up they started to their feet, brushing from their eyes sleep's quickening dew, a wondrous sight of grace and modesty, young and old and maidens yet unwed.

    The Bacchantes 2008

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