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...extra on a film there, but secretly hoping to “work out his own little pantomime inside the professional pretense and tunnel right through to the place where he’d lost himself, or rather the dark, the numb gap he could tell was asleep inside him”.But what he finds when he arrives in Germany is a waking nightmare, a camp full of people trapped in the war: ex-soldiers attempt to complete digging the actual tunnels they never finished during the war and ex-Nazis break limbs and faces while masquerading as innocent...
Maybe so, but the basics of grand, bone-jarring deceit cut across cultures - and decades. Like young Nick, Kerviel also devised a way to hide his trades from asleep-at-the-switch "superiors." And like Leeson, he disappeared for a few days, apparently holed up in a Paris apartment, just before the roof fell in. The comparisons are more than cursory. One of the lessons of Leeson (supposedly burned into the brain of trading desks everywhere) was to separate what banks call "the back office," where trades are processed and recorded, from the trading desks. Leeson had run the back...
...going on too. A lot of the production work—frequently provided by Tricky Stewart—sounds as though Timbaland took several shots of Nyquil and then bet himself that he couldn’t make half an album’s worth of beats before falling asleep. Just listen to “She Needs My Love” or “Ditch That,” a dead ringer—albeit a dull one—for “SexyBack.” The first track and lead single, “Shawty...
...Healthy Hearts I was interested to see that a study found that people who take 30-minute naps three times a week are 37% less likely to die from heart disease [Dec. 3]. I would question whether it's solely because blood pressure drops just before you fall asleep. People who work at high-stress jobs are probably too wound up to take a half-hour nap, which says volumes about stress-related hormone levels. It's probably not worth forcing yourself to take a nap to ward off heart disease. A better solution might be to change jobs...
...work, when the jury won't buy the legitimate claims of a dodgy informant, dangerous people can go free. In San Francisco, the DEA lost a felony drug-trafficking case in October after the informant admitted to smoking crack during the investigation and then, on the witness stand, fell asleep - seven times...