Word: nap
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...Naps for 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...
...handling the flight well: then the crew will engage them in conversation, offer them a drink or something to eat--all designed to lower the travelers' stress level. My stress was so low I decided I had to sleep. I easily dropped off and caught a four-hour nap. The cleverly designed seats have a headrest that bends to form a kind of a pillow: no embarrassing head drops onto your neighbor's shoulder...
...after a meal, a movie, some mingling and a four-hour nap, that leaves you with, oh, my God, nine hours to go. I read Jarhead for a little longer, then switched my video channel to the moving map display. It showed nothing but the huge blue expanse of the Pacific Ocean. Where the hell was Singapore anyway? Then back to the movies! Intolerable Cruelty zipped by. Then a couple of hours more sleep...
Kaufer remembered one particular afternoon after the two had had a fight: “I was lying down on my bed trying to get a little nap, and I was sort of half in half out of wakefulness, and my glasses were in my hand, hanging over the bed side, and I sort of heard Norman come in—he had to walk into my bedroom to go into his. And he just gently took the glasses out of my hand and put them on the desk so they wouldn’t fall...
...fifth a pancreas. But you have no organs and you’re about to see them die, until suddenly you remember that in the next room there’s a healthy guy who came in for a checkup, and he’s taking a nap. And you could go in and yank out the five organs you need. He would die, but you would save the five. Numbers count! Five versus one! How many would do that? Anybody? I don’t see a single hand! There is one there! Would you really? Alright...