Americans are sleep-deprived workaholics

Americans are sleep-deprived workaholics, with only about a third sleeping the recommended eight hours a night, and about 40 percent say they have trouble staying awake on the job, a poll found. The survey by the National Sleep Foundation said Americans are spending more time working and less time having sex than they did five years ago. The 2001 Sleep in America poll of 1,004 adults found that 63 percent get less than eight hours a night and about 31 percent get less than seven hours.
( AP Top Headlines Tuesday, March 27, 2001)