COVER STORY WRITTEN BY RICHARD SEVEN PHOTOGRAPHED BY BENJAMIN BENSCHNEIDER
ON THE COVER: Deep sleep isn't just for the body. Washington State University researcher James Krueger is working on a theory that sleep is necessary to preserve the brain's "synaptic superstructure" altered by each day's events, experiences, memories. In effect, you go to bed with a far different brain than you wake up with.

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