• That morning, at the beginning of April, I was wide awake with plans to slip out of the room without any of the fifteen other girls knowing I was gone until they woke to the rancid smell of grits and eggs to see my empty bed carefully made.

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  • And Joni Mitchell is back, wide awake, with new music and new art.

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  • Making mortgage payments and building retirement accounts also kept people awake, with 14 percent and 13 percent, respectively, listing those as their main concerns, the survey said.

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  • Experts said one detail in particular is encouraging: Soon after arriving at the hospital, Kennedy was awake, talking with his wife and son, and "feeling well, " according to doctors.

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  • With one child awake, it was impossible to keep the other three in bed.

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  • In the morning, you'll awake to your own rhythm with a gourmet, in-room breakfast and 2 pm checkout.

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  • Two ancient palms had once grown in his own front garden, but four years ago Nava had insisted that they be cut down, because the swish of their fronds against the bedroom window kept her awake at night and filled her with sorrow.

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  • Whenever I speak to CEO groups, I always ask what keeps them awake at night, what they struggle with the most.

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  • At Bhutia's academy in Delhi, 14-year-old Somil, Vansh and Tannay say they stay awake until the early hours to keep up with the European Championships and the World Cup.

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  • Patients are awake and are able to walk around the hospital with the drug on a rolling IV stand.

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  • More than anything, America must awake to the fact that Nigeria -- along with much of Africa -- is an important piece of the international security framework.

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  • While the medical community has traditionally focused on increasing daily amounts of exercise and participation in sports programs, what we should be more concerned with is the time when we are awake (up to 15 hrs per day) which we do not spend exercising.

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  • This movie "Awake, " we did a whole segment about it with an anesthesiologist.

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  • Cephalon is riding high on the prospects for Provigil, Sparlon and Nuvigil, a stay-awake drug that is effective for ten hours, compared with Provigil's six.

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  • Most people will roll over and go back to sleep, but those with insomnia become conditioned to feel anxious when they awake during the night.

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  • His manager told a news conference that "Jesse is awake and talking to us" but added that while they were "absolutely thrilled with the progress", he had suffered very bad concussion and damage to his lungs.

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  • These orexin cells were discovered from the study of narcolepsy, a disease in which people cannot stay awake, in the late 1990s by Emmanuel Mignot, a Stanford researcher, who found that dogs with a defective orexin receptor gene developed the condition.

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  • As Australia pushed their score past 400 in a workmanlike manner, with the game slipping away from India, even some members of the crowd struggled to stay awake as they reached 416-7 at tea.

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  • The only live wire is Shakur, with his deep wariness of life, who has a couple of sprightly scenes that prod the picture awake.

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  • Yet with careful rationing of its stored energy, it should be possible to achieve the closest thing yet to perpetual manned flight with man being the limiting factor because of the need to carry food and drink, and to remain awake for long periods.

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