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According to an April story in the New York Observer, sleep-disorder specialist Michael Thorpy says that more and more people are suffering from “delayed sleep phase syndrome,” a strong urge to stay out late followed by an inability to wake up on time. And doctors testifying before a judicial disciplinary commission in May said that Los Angeles superior court judge Patrick Couwenberg suffered from “pseudologia fantastica,” which caused him to pad his resume with false achievements.
Gas Crisis
Police in Wethersfield, Connecticut, allege that 42-year-old Richard Levitt surreptitiously videotaped himself having sex with a girlfriend and later posted the video on the Internet. The girlfriend found out, and so did Levitt’s other girlfriend. At 2 AM on March 25 the two women went to Levitt’s home and confronted him (and his wife); he was charged with disseminating voyeuristic materials.
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