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	Insomnia: National Sleep Disorders Research Plan, 2003, NCSDR, NHLBI, NIH
		Insomnia is defined as difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, or short sleep duration, despite having an adequate opportunity for sleep.
		Efficacious short-term behavioral and pharmacologic treatments for insomnia are available, and progress has been made in epidemiology and risk factor identification, in identification of adverse outcomes, and in identifying effective treatments.
		Studies will need to examine the developmental aspects of insomnia in children, including the role of early sleep patterns and behaviors, parenting practices, temperament, and genetics, and risks and protective factors for the persistence of insomnia into adolescence and adulthood.
	www.nhlbi.nih.gov /health/prof/sleep/res_plan/section5/section5b.html (1707 words)

	Insomnia - FDA approved ROZEREM (ramelteon)
		Insomnia is characterized by difficulty falling asleep, difficulty staying asleep, or poor quality sleep, leading to impairment of next-day functioning.
		However, failure of insomnia to remit after a reasonable period of time, worsening of insomnia, or the emergence of new cognitive or behavioral abnormalities after taking ROZEREM should be evaluated, as such symptoms may be the result of an unrecognized underlying medical disorder.
		Insomnia has been linked to a variety of health problems, including obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and depression.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=27882 (901 words)

	Insomnia
		People with insomnia may have frequent brief awakenings during sleep that appear to be a continual state of wakefulness, which they perceive as taking longer to actually fall asleep.
		People who were over-involved with their work tended to have trouble falling asleep and they tended to awaken earlier than average.
		Insomnia is not a disease but the sensation of daytime fatigue and impaired performance caused by insufficient sleep.
	www.reutershealth.com /wellconnected/doc27.html (9398 words)

	Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America Inc. :: New Study Showed Ramelteon Helped Adults With Chronic Insomnia Fall Asleep, Sleep Longer
		According to the American Insomnia Association, more than 20 million Americans have complaints of chronic insomnia, a condition in which an individual cannot fall asleep, stay asleep and/or wake up feeling restored or refreshed for at least one month.
		Patients completed sleep questionnaires regarding their previous night's sleep, and also were evaluated for the presence of possible next-day memory, cognitive or motor impairment, rebound insomnia, and withdrawal effects after treatment discontinuation.
		A total of 405 adults with chronic insomnia (mean age, 39.3 years) were enrolled in this double-blind, placebo-controlled study.
	sev.prnewswire.com /biotechnology/20050620/NYM02520062005-1.html (543 words)

	Study: Novel Drug Safely Treats Insomnia
		In the study of nearly 200 men and women who had trouble going to bed at night, those treated with the new drug, known as Indiplon, fell asleep faster compared with those who got a dummy pill.
		By making the body's own GABA work more efficiently, Indiplon keeps the brain on a more even keel, helping patients to relax and fall asleep.
		And about 13% of women and 9% of men suffer chronic insomnia that persists for more than five years.
	www.webmd.com /content/Article/86/99116.htm?pagenumber=1 (266 words)

	Arena Pharmaceuticals Announces Favorable Phase 1 Clinical Trial Results of Novel Insomnia Compound : Epilepsy.com
		Insomnia is characterized by inadequate or poor sleep due to nonrefreshing sleep, frequent wakening with difficulty falling back to sleep, difficulty falling asleep or waking too early.
		APD125 is a novel and highly selective inverse agonist of the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor.
		Insomnia is termed chronic when it persists for at least one month, and acute when lasting for one or several days.
	www.epilepsy.com /newsfeed/pr_1120224610.html (1316 words)

	Yoga Postures
		Insomnia, the most common type by far, is clinically defined as the inability to fall asleep after lying in bed for thirty minutes or the inability to sustain sleep for more than a few hours without waking.
		Insomnia is not life-threatening, although many people respond to it with agitation or fear.
		The third common cause of insomnia, one which has become prevalent only in modern times, is tampering with the normal cycle of sleeping and waking.
	www.yogasite.com /sleep.htm (2117 words)

	Asleep in the present Douglas Coupland's novel treats coma as a metaphor for the way we sleepwalk through a cultural trashpile, but it also presents its Gen-X characters with the opportunity to begin anew.
		Asleep in the present Douglas Coupland's novel treats coma as a metaphor for the way we sleepwalk through a cultural trashpile, but it also presents its Gen-X characters with the opportunity to begin anew.
		The elements that catapult the story -- ghosts, alfresco sex and a coma -- are the sorts of fantastically sexy events that might be celebrated in a a song by any number of gloomy goth-rock bands.
		He's telling us about the end of the world as he sees it, but then he hands the story over to Richard, who in 1979 has just had sex with his girlfriend Karen, on a ski slope.
	coupland.tripod.com /gc10.html (2117 words)

	Japanese Horror Encyclopedia: A
		The novel's theme is reincarnation, and it involves a mystery writer's recurrent dream of a drowning child.
		Predecessor of Hearn's tale, "The Reconciliation," it is the story of man who returns to his abandoned wife, has a joyful reunion, falls asleep beside her and wakes to find that she has been long dead.
		The source of horror or supernatural entity may be gone but some mark or indicator remains behind as "proof." One example is a shapeshifter is wounded or disfigured in one state and carries over the disfigurement in another, evidencing the two dissimilar beings are the same.
	www.angelfire.com /sk3/asianhorror/a.html (2117 words)

	Wilt, "Frankenstein as Mystery Play"
		Decreation, the pulling apart, laying asleep, washing away of body, soul, and consciousness, is a Gothic AntiMystery vividly dramatized in novel after novel, one that rules more strongly than {42} the Creation mystery, the Awakening moment.
		In eighteenth-century Gothic novels it is the mystically tenanted chapel with its activating priest; in the nineteenth century it is the laboratory.
		And it might be argued that the central tradition of the English novel, F. Leavis's Great Tradition of moral seriousness, was begotten from it by heretics who want to allow the Separated One his or her mission in the outward curve, allow it, and then, if possible, rescue the missionary.
	www.english.upenn.edu /Projects/knarf/Articles/wilt.html (5927 words)

	Weasley's Wizard Wheezes
		The second story tells of one of the first pranks played by the Marauders; a story that in the end turns out to be a dream as Remus is asleep on the train to Hogwarts, in the present day.
		It also includes an angsty story where Remus shows Harry how to create a patronus, but he is overwhelmed with emotion as his 'happy thoughts' are of the good times of his youth, when Sirius Black was still his best friend.
		I think the person who drew this doujinshi must have been a Gundam Wing fan, as Remus looks like an older version of Duo, while Sirius (seen mostly as a young boy in flashbacks) looks like Heero, if he ever managed to grin most wickedly...
	s1ncer1ty.tripod.com /hpdoujin.html (5927 words)

	95.02.02: “the Wonder Behind the Wizard of Oz”
		Their rescue is effected by the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, and the Queen of the Mice, whereas in the film the Wicked Witch is the reasons why Dorothy and all of her friends failing asleep in the poppy field by sprinkling a sleeping potion into her crystal ball which fell over the poppy field.
		In Baum’s novel the trees are attacking Dorothy and the members of her group by trying to grab them, while in the film version there are talking apple trees that slap the hands of any one attempting to take an apple.
		In Baum’s novel, Dorothy throws the water on the wicked Witch because she is angry at the witch for not returning one of her silver shoes.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1995/2/95.02.02.x.html (6178 words)

	Never Better IX
		âWhen you have insomnia,â the narrator explained, âYouâre never really asleep, and youâre never really awake.â And they showed a man, lying on his couch, his face vacant, bathed in the glow of the television, looking much the way I expect I look watching âLaw and Orderâ re-runs at three in the morning.
		Once your payment is received, you will be sent the address where you can find the rest of the novel.
		Sooner or later, I gave in to insomnia.
	www.notmyshoes.net /~theseare/starving.html (925 words)

	Older Adults with Insomnia Report Falling Asleep Faster with Ramelteon
		Analysis of data from the questionnaires showed that, in comparison to those who received placebo, study participants who received ramelteon 4 or 8 mg had statistically significant decreases in estimates of time to fall asleep.
		An estimated 60 million people in the U.S. suffer from insomnia, and approximately half of all older adults experience one or more symptoms of insomnia at least a few nights per week.
		Additionally, no rebound insomnia or withdrawal effects were observed.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-12-2005/0003597366&EDATE= (395 words)

	And You Call Yourself a Scientist! - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
		In the novel, the Creature strangles the young William after the boy is unwise enough to utter the fatal word “Frankenstein”; it then finds Justine, who has been searching for the boy, asleep in a barn, and plants on her evidence linking her to the murder.
		Shelley’s novel is, after all, less a story than a philosophical rumination upon human nature, man’s place in the universe, and his relationship with God; countless pages pass with both Victor Frankenstein and his Creature expatiating tirelessly upon these issues.
		The most harrowing section of Shelley’s novel involves the murder of Victor’s young brother, William, by the Creature, and the subsequent condemnation and execution of Victor and Elizabeth’s childhood companion, Justine Moritz, for the crime.
	twtd.bluemountains.net.au /Rick/msf.htm (395 words)

	Orson Scott Card, Enchantment
		Closer examination shows that it is an original painting of a young woman asleep in a sea of leaves.
		Katerina dispels effectively the notion of the helpless princess, and Card's Baba Yaga is one of the most interesting villainesses to charge onto the pages of a novel.
		The cover of Enchantment catches the eye first, with a golden yellow leafy background and an inset that appears, at first glance, to be Ophelia by John Everett Millais.
	www.rambles.net /card_enchantment.html (391 words)

	Book Review-65.1-Thomas
		Chopin unquestionably related to Grand Isle's coterie of "mother-women," had an exacting husband, was an outsider to Louisiana Creole society, knew playboys like the novel's Alcée Arobin, and more than likely had fallen asleep reading Emerson.
		Emily Toth's recent biography, written to honor the novel's centennial, contains a colorful overview of Chopin's life (1850–1904) and literary achievement.
		As biographer Victoria Glendinning cautions in the essay "Lies and Silences," the act of writing about writers has inherent "pitfalls": "Novels can tell you a great deal about an author, especially if you are already steeped in that author's way of thinking and feeling, but they can only be used very warily as biographical evidence.
	www.samla.org /sar/00wThomas.html (980 words)

	Obasan (JOY KOGAWA)
		In this novel, Joy Kogawa creates an intense mental picture of the cruelty and anguish these completely innocent people were put through, simply due to their background and heritage.
		Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War.
		Joy Kogawa uses a blend of techniques in her debut novel, OBASAN, to tell the story of the Japanese Canadians and their years in Canada during and following WWII.
	www.productsnapper.com /0385468865-obasan.html (980 words)

	2002 VOC Duyfken Voyagie: Captain's Log
		In the novel the ship is becalmed near the rocks and the doctor is rowed ashore to study the bird life.
		Stijn and I have both read the Patrick O'Brien novel, which has a description of the Rocks, I think it was the novel Desolation Island.
		As we sail past the rocks on the lee side we see a small fishing vessel moored to the permanent buoy on the west side of the island, no movement could be seen on the vessel, must have been asleep.
	www.duyfken.com /voyagie/log/default.asp-id=1243.htm (673 words)

	Pindeldyboz
		She would never tell the rest of us, but sometimes, at night, Sticks and Stones crawls out of bed, makes her way down to the basement, where the mannequin resides, hoists herself up into the wooden arms of her make-shift father and falls asleep.
		He is the bully of our gang, the Great Protector of our particular circle, even though he is easily humiliated, easily shamed, which we sometimes do, as a group, just to show him who’s really in charge.
		Frog Bait has intervened in certain situations on our behalf; thwarting would-be bullies, stealing lunch money from other kids when one of us had forgotten ours, and insisting that he had been the one that caused trouble in class, when he hadn't, when it had been someone else in our gang instigating the trouble.
	www.pindeldyboz.com /sbgang.htm (1847 words)

	last call
		He made it up the stairs with the last box, the monitor, lay on his bed, and fell promptly asleep.
		She had thought about calling Nick and was still debating when Nick had called her two nights ago, after maybe a month of neither one of them contacting the other, to tell her that he had finally finished the book.
		If you ever even contact any one of us ever again, if you call the police about this, all I will do is take it out of the safe deposit box and give it to them and tell them the story and they won’t help you and your life will really be over.
	www.brocktunestudios.com /joesshit/lclastcall.html (2774 words)

	Библиотека Luksian key New SF&F books review.
		Reading this novel I was most of all moved by a scene when the protagonist, Tom Winter, a man from 1989, falls asleep in 1962 New York City and dreams of Chernobyl.
		I never expected such a novel from the author of highly imaginary grand-scale Hyperion novels with their comprehensive picture of the future Armageddon and heralding of the smallest details and linking and interweaving of different cultures and civilizations of the future.
		I think, this novel is a sign of the author's maturity: masterfully plotted, written in an elegant style, deeply concerned of mankind's ecological problems, showing a sense of history.
	lib.luksian.com /textsfnf/engl/030 (6688 words)

	The Commodore, by Patrick O'Brian
		Now in "Commodore," Maturin, musing to himself as he tries to fall asleep, thinks: "Yet changed he [Maturin] had to some degree, of that there was no doubt: more and more, for example, it seemed to him that the proper study of mankind was man rather than beetle or even bird."
		The Commodore has some of my favorite scenes, and among those are the voyages on the Ringle - the quick trip to London, and especially the flight to the Berlings.
		However, having just finished The Commodore I have to say that I found this book a return to POB at his best or near it - I'd read only three or four pages before I had the comfortable feeling that the Master was back "in midseason form" as PG Wodehouse would say.
	jfinnera.www1.50megs.com /Commodore.htm (16295 words)

	f_word home
		JJ seen eating pizza and drinking coke, Chop curled up on a seat with his sleeping mask on, Ant snoring on the floor, Telf is pacing, Pross listening to his mini-disc player, Mike asleep with his eyes open and me scribbling.
		An hour before we went on stage he got a call to say his wife had been rushed to hospital, so he got back in his car and headed off.
		Testing few hours as we arrive at the airport to find the flight has been oversold and although we have tickets, we don't have reservations.
	www.oysterband.co.uk /f-word/f_wordcentre/archive.html (10655 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Three Tales
		...Zeinvele would be locked in his room lyingTHREE TALES 43 asleep in his bed, but also he'd be wandering around the synagogue yard, or the market place...
		...Then he took three of his friends aside, and after swearing them to secrecy, told them the following: While he was walking in the synagogue yard, he'd caught sight of Zeinvele standing near the poorhouse making curious motions with his hands...
		...Three days before the wedding the Jenukah's mother entered his room to bring him a cup of tea...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V38I4P42-1.htm (10655 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on One Dark and Scary Night at Epinions.com
		He goes on to explain that late one night when the entire family is in bed asleep - he is awake lying in his bed in his own bedroom.
		I think all parents at one time or another have dealt with a child who is afraid of the sounds and darkness.
		One Dark And Scary Night is a delightful tale that parents and children alike will appreciate.
	www.epinions.com /content_30755556996 (10655 words)

	I, Libertine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Betty Ballantine is supposed to have written the final chapter after an exhausted Sturgeon fell asleep on the Ballantines' couch, having written most of the novel under deadline in one marathon typing session.
		Ian Ballantine engaged Theodore Sturgeon to write a novel to match the rumor, from Shepherd's outline.
		The novel was released simultaneously in hardcover and paperback editions, on or about September 13, 1956, with Shepherd seen as Ewing in the photo on the back.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/I,_Libertine (10655 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Books
		Murakami, born in 1949, ran a Tokyo jazz club before he became a published writer, with the novel “Hear the Wind Sing,” in 1979.
		Haruki Murakami’s new novel, “Kafka on the Shore” (translated, from the Japanese, by Philip Gabriel; Knopf; $25.95), is a real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender.
		The proverbial blank slate.” In his adulthood, “that bottomless world of darkness, that weighty silence and chaos, was an old friend, a part of him already.” Throughout this chronicle, Murakami describes his characters falling asleep as lovingly as he itemizes what they cook and eat.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/books?050124crbo_books1 (1832 words)

	The Long Goodbye (1973)
		But Altman decided to transmogrify the novel's serious hard-nosed private eye, Philip Marlowe into a bumbling "Rip Van Winkle" type character who has figuratively been asleep for the last two decades and has missed all the psychedelia of the Sixties and the dark cloud descended in the Seventies.
		Altman was on a roll by 1973 when he chose to film Leigh Brackett's screenplay of Raymond Chandler's "The Long Goodbye", which is considered his last great novel.
		Plot Outline: Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0070334 (509 words)

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