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Occasionally Lemon Jelly’s sound becomes too Muzak, too effortless—like their name, too cloyingly easy to swallow. “Nervous Tension,” in particular, with its ceaseless pounding bass, is just plain dull. There’s always a tendency to doze off while listening to this album, which is not at all displeasing, but does not make for the most exciting music. But the simple keyboard melodies, looped around the urban beats and guitar riffs, lend a peculiar ambience to the entire album. It’s just a bit boring...
...three-year-old. To help him reach his quota of 11 hours a day, lately I've been letting him doze in the car while I drive the girls to their after-school activities. But that means he often stays up later than his sisters, which puts his parents at risk of a breakdown. Owens suggested we end the late-afternoon car naps and instead take our son to his room well before then and help him find his midday circadian trough, one of two low points humans experience in energy level each day. (The other...
...Church's lax policy on religious observance for choir members helps keep them there. During the Sunday services, choir members are concealed from the congregation by the altar screen, and are known to read or doze off during the sermon...
...flies sleep? after prodding and tapping fruit flies, measuring their activity with ultrasound and infrared detectors, blasting them with sound waves and monitoring their genes, researchers at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego have come to a definitive conclusion: the flies actually doze off in slumber patterns that are strikingly similar to those of humans...
Back in his seat, Wahid, 59, appeared to doze for a time until he was helped to the podium again to make his acceptance speech. After promising economic reform, Wahid cut his speech short, "because the longer I speak, the more we will have to account for later." The 700 delegates burst into laughter as the tension evaporated. The man fondly known by the nickname "Gus Dur" had shown once more that despite his physical frailty, neither his wit nor his wits had deserted...