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Page 1 of 9 A friend comes to you with a problem. “I haven’t been sleeping at night,” he says. You decide to help out. Upon further study you find that he hasn’t slept on a box spring for three months, has a persistent backache and has been on a 90-ounces-of-coffee-a-day diet since his last heat transfer midterm. Committed to your friend’s well-being, you take the appropriate action. You find a box-spring on Craigslist for free. You suggest the use of caffeine-free tea after 6 pm and recommend that he play Bach softly as he falls asleep to drown out the sound of late-night buses. Your friend thanks you for the best night’s sleep he’s had in a while. Word spreads and it isn’t long before someone comes to you and says, “A friend of mine is having trouble sleeping at night.” What do you tell them? Do you say, “Easy, get a box spring and play Bach!?” If you did that, they would be confused
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