Word: nap
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...booth. A picture of a 9/11 victim is taped to his trousers. Al-Qahtani repeats that he will "not talk until he is interrogated the proper way." At 7 a.m. on Dec. 4, after a 12-hour, all-night session, he is put to bed for a four-hour nap...
...Hong Kong authorities to tackle issues like the wealth gap, health care, education and pollution. Hung thinks the territory needs a government with the sort of mandate that can only be acquired through proper elections. "This setback," she says, "is only a hibernation." But it could be a long nap...
...Hong Kong authorities to tackle issues like the wealth gap, health care, education and pollution. Hung thinks the territory needs a government with the sort of mandate that can only be acquired through proper elections. "This setback," she says, "is only a hibernation." But it could be a long nap...
...many women talking about their experiences. So in the chapter on efficiency, which is titled "How Necessity Is the Mother of Multitasking," I interview a corporate executive who found herself with triplets and had to learn quickly how to feed them all at once so she could take a nap. In the chapter on coping with stress, I talk about how new mothers tend to make extraordinary kinds of friendships, based on their deep need for other people. I found this to be true in my own life and only later read how great it is for your brain...
...Embroideries" depicts Satrapi and a klatch of her female friends and relatives engaged in an after-dinner bull session. The men, naturally, have all gone off to take a nap while the women clean up and settle down to tea. The place is Iran and the time is 1991, when Satrapi was 20. The dominant character is the grandmother, who Satrapi depicts as a highly independent, worldly woman who goes from bad-tempered ogre to mild and caring "grandma" only after having her morning tea with a bit of opium mixed in. After the dishes are done, she presides over...