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Show shift . . . manipulating the sleep-controlcenter sleep-controlcenter at will." The author debunks the old axiom about "early to bed, early to rise," andj-eports that there's no evidence to substantiate the notion that the sleep one gets before midnight is best. "Sleep habits," says the aarticle, "cannot and should not be standardized stand-ardized . . .There is no absolute rule about the amount of sleep one needs. The eight hours we hear about constitute only a mean . . . how, when, where, or how much you sleep is of no conse-quence conse-quence so long as you get sufficient suf-ficient sleep to maintain good health." "Sleepless Person Should Try To Cure Himself Although chronic insomnia is a serious and depressing affliction, the sleepless person should try to cure himself before he seeks professional help. Writing on the subject in the February issue of a current magazine, mag-azine, the noted science writer, Maxine Davis, points out that those who suffer severely from sleeplessness are those who build up emotional tensions. Such a person, says the author, auth-or, "should recognize the fact that sleep eludes him because the accumulated ac-cumulated tensions of the day crowd into his consciousness as soon as he is in bed. His primary problem is to stop thinking." According to the article, it was only several months ago that investigators in-vestigators located the "sleep-control center',, the mysterious mechanism mech-anism that puts man to sleep and wakes him up. Unfortunately, she adds, "these discoveries - are of only academic interest . . . for no 'one as yet has devised a gear- |