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...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...
...since then, and nursery school programs with it. In fact, most are no longer called nursery school, but something staid and serious instead—something like “Pre-Primary Preparatory Education.” The rugs and water tables of yore have been replaced with desks, nap time with tests, and hugs and Ginger the pet bunny with grades and a stiff pat on the back. I doubt many of us could have survived such an atmosphere, let alone get in to such a rigorous program. I know I couldn?...
...proverb would have you believe. If arriving from Tokyo or Osaka, begin your ascent at Fujinomiya 5th station?a convenient trailhead?and bank on a five-hour trek to the top. Rest huts along the way sell noodles and will rent you a lumpy futon for a quick nap. There are also vending machines selling beer, hot tea and?you guessed it?Fuji Film disposable cameras...