Word: lags
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Twenty-four hours following arrival: Traveler is in jet lag-induced delirium. Hello, there, Mr. Sandwich. How are you today? I am going to eat you now; I hope you don?t mind...
...Even occasional travelers know it well: That cobwebby, vaguely woozy feeling that descends into the crevices of consciousness after a long, time zone jumping flight. For most of us, jet lag fades over the course of a day or two, during which time we may feel the need to take illicit and ill-advised nap - right in the middle of the afternoon! For flight attendants and pilots who make their living traversing the globe, however, the effects of jet lag may be a bit more serious...
...Does this mean that every time you take a transatlantic flight you?re putting your future mental functioning at risk? Not necessarily; the study?s authors point out these results could have been linked more clearly to sleep deprivation than to jet lag. But isn?t it fun to speculate...
...When OPEC turns the tap off, it takes a few weeks for American consumers to feel the effect at the pump. The lag time for retail prices depends primarily on gasoline inventories. But when there's a fire at an Illinois refinery, as there was on April 28, it takes only a few days for the price of gas to spike at pumps in Detroit. Combine a fire in one place with a new regulation in another and you've got a national price spike like the one that happened last year, when a Michigan pipeline burst in June...
...interest in using the technology for a priority package service. As for turning the lights out on the in-flight films and food fiascos that define modern air travel, Rausch says killing off killing time "would be fine with me." Bye-bye economy class syndrome?hello instant jet lag...