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...order to help the team bond, we all bought some hats for tomorrow's race." Donaldson said. "We took a nap and rested up, so we'll be ready to row tomorrow...
...barn at his Long Island, New York, home. When he needs a break, he likes to go downstairs to his carpentry shop, where he builds furniture. "I find the action of hand-planing extremely soothing," he says. "It zoids you out." After lunch he takes a long nap, a ritual he began in 1964 following a trip to Italy. "God help anybody who tries to reach me between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," he laughs...
...works hard on, says a Senator, is his "secret weapon." Dole admits to putting "a little stuff'' on his hair to keep out the gray, although he insists he does not color his eyebrows. And he sometimes slips off to his new hideaway near his office for a nap on a couch that Dole nabbed when Senator Howard Metzenbaum retired last year...
...many ways, 1995 was a dream year for Harvard. But it was almost like a dream had in an afternoon nap. The big dream, the dream that Wooden had, might need a little more time than that. However, there are definite signs hinting that Harvard might have its time soon enough in water polo ecstasy because it took the giant first step in 1995--it started somewhere...
Countless insomniacs yearning for sleep have looked with envy at their cats, wishing they too could just curl up anywhere and nap. Turns out the cats may hold the secret to natural, drug-free sleep. A report to be published Friday in the journal Science says it may be possible to synthesize a brain chemical found in cats, but possibly common to all mammals, that leads to peaceful drowsiness. If so, they may be able to produce a new sleeping aid that does not carry the usual "hangover" side-effects of grogginess, headache and exhaustion. Scientists at the Scripps Research...