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Forty-one percent say it takes at least 20 minutes, and 8 percent need an hour to reach the Land of Nod, said the Carpenter Company, the maker of materials used in pillows and mattresses that commissioned the survey.

"As a society, [our] anxiety levels have risen pretty significantly over the last five years - [due to] everything from 9/11 to the different economic states people are going through," said Michael Breus, who led the survey.

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"Once you raise the level of awareness, you start to notice things," said Breus, a clinical psychologist and ba href=/sleep/a/b consultant to the health Web site WebMD.

He said the national increase in obesity may also be a factor, causing ba href=/sleep/a/b apnea.

The survey of 1,008 Americans was conducted March 17-19.

The margin of error was 3 points.

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Signs of spring seem to bring out those black animals with the white streak down their backs.

There were three of them in our yard yesterday morning.

I have had some good luck and some very bad luck with the little creatures.One night I was getting home rather late from a meeting and reached down to pat our black cat that was waiting on our doorstep.

It wasn't our cat and I was lucky.

The skunk wouldn't move so I could get in our house.

I went to our front door and that was locked.

I waited some time at a distance and finally the skunk moved so I could get in my house.Another time one somehow got into our cellar.

I wasn't about to fool with it, but I understand if you can pick one up fast enough by its tail, you are safe.

Well, I made the mistake of all mistakes.

I shot it.

The fragrance was so bad that my eyes smarted and the tears ran down my cheeks.

I don't think my wife will ever let me forget what I did.

Talk about pollution.I was looking through some pictures of our last trip.

I found a picture that I took of some real pollution.

It was of an industrial city in the distance.

Black smoke was pouring out of each of its many smokestacks.

I don't know the name of the city.

Foolishly, I never marked my film.

It was, however, part-way between Odessa and Kiev in Ukraine.There has been a lot of talk lately about global warming caused in part by pollutants.

I wrote an article once stating that Florida is sinking or the tides are getting higher.

I have owned property in Fl...