If candidates get confused about what state they are waking up in, here's an easy guide.

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Certainly it is difficult to put ourselves in that situation, but I for one know that in a state of exhaustion and waking, the mind can play all sorts of tricks.

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Much worse than losses from shoplifting is the possibility of waking the regular shoppers from the dream state that the stores have worked so hard to induce.

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There are small signs, though, that at least at the state level, politicians and businesspeople are waking up to the danger of letting the cleantech achievements slide off a cliff.

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One particular example has it guiding users though an efficient power nap, by starting a timer once they've started dozing and only waking them once they've come out of a deeper sleep state.

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Leaders of ASEAN may finally be waking up to what is happening in the neighborhood: the prospect of a failed state.

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But state high school associations, as Michigan did to allow Dompierre to keep playing, are waking up and creating rules that clearly spell out how a school can allow a special-needs student to be part of a team without creating an unusual competitive advantage.

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