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Want to bring up your grades this semester? Take a nap. At least that’s what a recent Harvard study suggests. The experiment tested memory used for factual recall and found that a 45-minute nap boosted participants’ ability to remember recently learned information...
...inexorable,” he said. “I had to give up thinking that I was going to take a nap on a Sunday afternoon...
...demands, but uses a lighter, sweeter Tarbes bean, finely sliced pork rind and leaner duck confit, and trades cassoulet's typical black crust, the result of hours spent in the oven, for a lightly browned one. It's not his grandmother's cassoulet, but you won't need a nap after finishing it, either...
...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...
...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...