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...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...
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...
Each summertime witnesses a diaspora of Harvard ambition. In New York’s stockbroking looms, Harvard expatriates watch the shuttle of industry fly back and forth for 90 hours a week and try not to get their fingers jammed. While others nap, we are stuffing our pockets and Palms with the telephone numbers and email addresses of the well-connected. We are discovering proteins; we are debating philosophy; we are disassembling poverty...
...Nap and other reggae purists, most of the homophobia has been generated by dancehall music - the genre's aggressive offspring - and is not considered to be a true example of the reggae ideals of peace and mutual tolerance...