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The highest selling model in Vietnam is the Honda Wave (along with the SuperCub), both of which are 4-strokes.
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http://digg.com/general_sciences/Man_in_Vietnam_hasn%E2%80%99t_slept_in_33_years._2

All Google hits either refer to http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=12673 or they have no reference at all. So, it is a matter of whether you trust that site.

It also looks like he has a Wikipedia page, but not a Snopes page.

This is a working link:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&newsid=12673

And Snopes message board commentary:

http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/43/t/001054/p/1.html

http://www.thanhniennews.com/features/?catid=10&ne wsid=12673
Honestly, That's just one story of many that i take great interest in. I've found, and talked to many psychologists about this, that there are quite a number of activities that can replicate some of the affects of sleep, such as some forms of meditation or even reading a simple book.
If one has a quiet enough lifestyle, or merely takes time out to organize their mind and let it run it's background processes while retaining consciousness, is sleep really neccessary?
People say it must have a good reason since evolution hasn't done away with it, but what if that reason is just that we use up such a huge % of our brain during normal daytime activity of hunting, protection,etc, that we sleep so our brain can do it's normal background processes/cleanup/memory consolidation?

This kind of thing does happen occasionally. There's a Vietnamese man who allegedly hasn't slept since 1973, and I've heard stories from my mother (who used to work in a hospital) of the occasional stroke patient who would remain awake for days at a time before getting a couple of hours of sleep, and then doing it again.

.. this guy must be quite stupid then

apart from this guy does anybody actually know anyone in OR from Viet Nam or are you all just arm chair politicians? http://www.thanhniennews.com/