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In a written statement, Mr Mikhalevich gives a vivid description of how he was subjected to what he calls "sleep-deprivation torture".
BBC News - Home 2011
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My youngest is almost twenty and no, the whole sleep-deprivation/need-to-hibernate has not passed for me yet.
And On The Seven-Hundredth Day, She Rested | Her Bad Mother 2009
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The same is true of sleep-deprived medical students and interrogating someone through forced sleep-deprivation.
Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition 2010
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Because, of course, I purposefully had a time-consuming child, and I purposefully like to worry about money all the time because it's so fun for me, and I purposefully have family-of-origin issues, and I just ran out and courted sleep-deprivation brought on my slumlords and and and ...
mrissa: Hollywood broken leg theory mrissa 2010
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The notion that they could perform this work while also participating in a sleep-deprivation experiment is a comedy premise worthy of Hollywood.
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After a lifetime of convincing myself that I lived mostly in my brain, I discovered that hormones and sleep-deprivation have the power to affect everything I think of as ME.
10 Things I Hate About Motherhood (And One That I Love) - Her Bad Mother 2010
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The notion that they could perform this work while also participating in a sleep-deprivation experiment is a comedy premise worthy of Hollywood.
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The sleep-deprivation has run on for what seems like ages now, which makes everything fuzzy.
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To me, even a paragraph represents a chunk of time in my life that I spent writing (often through days of sleep-deprivation thanks to my new baby).
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Untangling Story Knots in Six Steps 2009
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This is only the latest in sleep-deprivation- and fatigue-related incidents for the airline industry.
Air Traffic Controllers Sleeping on the Job: Is It Really Their Fault? 2011
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