As a participant in the sleep-deprivation experiment, Kleitman stayed awake longer than anyone else—a hundred and fifteen hours straight.

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He stayed awake for days, talked non-stop and spent money recklessly.

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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A few hours after he ended the longest game in the majors this season, Brandon Moss and his 3-year-old son sat together at home and stayed awake to watch television replays.

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One rescuer told the press that, despite the gas, some of the terrorists stayed awake long enough to shoot at them—and yet not a single one detonated the explosives that they had set up around the theatre and on their own bodies, like the suicide bombers they claimed to be.

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