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You think you're tired? There's ordinary, everyday tired. And then there's dizzy, feverish, might-as-well-be-dead tired (the chronic fatigue syndrome that caused Laura Hillenbrand to write much of her best-seller in bed). But tired or supertired, the point is, it's not all in your head. Mary A. Fischer reports on the discovery of a genetic basis for CFS. Plus: some of the more usual suspects that may be wiping you out.(body wise)

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THE APRIL MORNING SHE HEARD THE report on NPR, Laura Hillenbrand began her day as usual. Dragging herself out of bed, she took a shower and then spent the next three hours recovering from it. While in the bathroom, she mulled over the news: Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had found credible evidence of a biological cause for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), the illness that Hillenbrand says has caused her "suffering and incapacitation that is beyond my ability to articulate." Given that she is the author of the literary phenomenon Seabiscuit: An American Legend, being stuck without the right words would seem a rare occurrence.

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