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Roundup

12-31-69

A Fitful History of Sleep [9min]

Historian Roger Ekirch, professor of history at Virginia Tech, argues that an uninterrupted night's rest is a modern invention. His op-ed appears in Sunday's New York Times.

Read entire article at NPR "Talk of the Nation"