Word: nap
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...darkness toward the Shah-i-Kot Valley in eastern Afghanistan, the dim cabin lights cast pink and purple shadows on Perez and his fellow infantrymen from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Some chattered about the fight to come, while others managed to catch a last-minute nap. Perez was far away, hugging a baby he had never met. It was early March, and the 30-year-old staff sergeant had seen only a grainy Internet picture of his only son, Ramiro, born just 10 weeks before. Perez wondered what Ramiro was doing. He wondered what would happen...
...Shah, 16, plops down her books, shakes out her hair and heads upstairs to watch some TV. She switches the set in her parents' bedroom to Roswell and kicks her younger brother and sister off the couch. "Teenage aliens with identity crises," grumbles her mother, who is trying to nap on the bed. "What nonsense...
From infancy, kids can easily be unsettled by disruptions in their circadian cycles, as parents of newborns and toddlers learn whenever they try to change nap times. Bipolars, regardless of age, are also reactive to fluctuating schedules; many things can destabilize patients, but Keck believes that sleep deprivation and time-zone changes are the most upsetting...
...with his wife, a bio-immunologist. He's not exactly looking forward to his nine-city author tour. "I'm terrified. If I'm away from Luke, he doesn't like it. But a grueling author tour is not a good place to put a baby down for a nap...
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