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1997 May 16
 It was reported that researchers have found the gene that controls the sleep/wake cycles in mammals.
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2001 Oct
 The European Court of Human Rights ruled in a case against airport noise that people have a fundamental right to a good night’s sleep.
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2003 Aug 19
 It was reported that women in Kenya had begun rebelling against a traditional "cleansing" ritual whereby new widows were required to sleep with a designated "cleanser" in order to be inherited by male relatives and freed of haunting spirits.
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2005 Dec 2
 Manfred Nowak, the first UN torture investigator to visit China said that abuse was still widespread and authorities subjected detainees to electric shocks, beatings and sleep deprivation. He also accused the government of obstructing his work.
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2008
 Eluned Summers-Bremmer authored “Insomnia: A Cultural History.”
Links: USA, Books, Sleep     Click to see the source(s) for this event 
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