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...least in college, I could schedule all my classes in the afternoon, or, more likely, sleep through the morning ones in bed. Needless to say, I took full advantage. With night owl genes in my family, early classes were out of the question. Even still, I managed to doze in most of my afternoon classes...
After a day of trailblazing, you should doze in style. Marmot's light, chili-red Atom sleeping bag ($229; marmot.com) easily stuffed in any backpack, gives your feet extra room at the bottom...
...doubt about it, David Threshie once deserved your pity. When Threshie became publisher of the Orange County Register in 1979, he inherited a crotchety, shabbily written newspaper content to doze in the shadow of its bigcity neighbor, the Los Angeles Times. Its news columns were infected with the libertarian philosophy of its editorials (public schools were called "tax-supported schools"), and the biggest headlines were saved for crime and sex stories. A sympathetic nod should also have gone to Chris Anderson, whom Threshie picked as the paper's editor in 1980. A onetime disk jockey and former associate managing editor...
Unfortunately, my eight hours of sleep per night was barely enough for me this week. At least I didn’t doze off in the front row of my thrilling social anthropology lecture again, but I still took a little nap in Cabot Library. I’m sure I needed the sleep, but I felt guilty about my inability to stay awake and my inability to be as intense as my sleep-deprived peers...
...whistles sound across the scruffy courtyard as the residents of Grozny doze through a sticky, mosquito-filled night. The men guarding this apartment building are signaling to one another that all is clear. They're not police or regular soldiers but lookouts for a Wahhabi Jamaat, an urban guerrilla group of about 20 men loyal to Chechen rebel commander Shamil Basayev. Unlike other Chechens fighting purely for their republic's independence, the Wahhabis want to create an Islamic state across the Caucasus and are almost fundamentalist in their outlook. They are deeply critical of the easygoing approach of more secular...