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Oddity Central re- ported on Sept. 3 that Li Zhanying
speaker
of Henan, China, is known in her community for hav- ing gone more than 40 years without sleeping at all. Her husband and neighbors con- firmed her claims, saying that she stayed up all night to do chores and didn’t ever nap.
sellers
88 Big dipper
65 Group email function
67 A, in Aachen
69 Sign of a cat burglar?
74 Shoppe modifier
75 Brand
SEPTEMBER 29, 2021
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mentioned in the Beatles’ “Come Together”
She Only Sleeps When Awake
Game On For Pope Francis
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
77 Golf club part 78 “I pity the fool”
79 Word that’s a homophone of
its first letter
full of the spoils taken by or
a Covington Domino’s Pizza store tossed some of its left- over dough into a dumpster out back, nola.com report-
80 Willing subjects 82 Melodious
given to popes over the cen-
85 BILLY bookcase
turies, but Pope Francis has
But recently, Li visited a Beijing medical center, where doctors used sen- sors to monitor her and discovered that Li does sleep — with her eyes open and while talking to her husband. Doctors called it “sleep when awake,” which is similar to sleepwalking.
They said Li sometimes had “slow eyeballs and hollow eyes,” indicating that she was resting.
ported that a Tuscany-based table football association, Sport Toscana Calcio Balilla, presented the pope with the game on Aug. 18, and he im- mediately struck up a match with Natale Tonini, president of the club. Pope Francis is a big fan of soccer and of his home club, San Lorenzo, in Argentina.
As Hurricane Ida made its way up the East Coast and Louisiana started to clean up,
Nicole Amstutz, who lives nearby, started docu- menting the wayward dough blob on Sept. 1, posting updates on Facebook. The dough spilled over onto the pavement, but Amstutz reported on Sept. 4 that it had fallen and boxes were placed on top of it.
a new toy that’s delighting
him: a foosball table.
The Associated Press re-
ed. Temperatures in the area climbed into the 90s, and the dough climbed ... out of the waste container.
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