Word: napped
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...students’ larger intellectual gripes about Harvard: the class covers too much, too hastily and too broadly. The lecturing is split up between three professors who vary in quality, and students complain that by the end of the semester, 10a is a better venue to grab a power-nap (undisturbed) than to peruse Western history. The sourcebook was too often lauded as something more “exciting” than the lectures. Coming after 10a, History 10b is more like a dessert than a hangover, whipping through modernity as fast as 10a covered the old stuff, but with...
...write something - anything - on a piece of paper," he once said. (According to legend, when the Swedish ambassador paid him a call to inform him that he'd been awarded the Nobel, Mahfouz's wife refused to disturb him: he was taking his regular nap...
...individual but found nothing out of the ordinary. Musical Spaces Wednesday, July 26, 1:41 a.m.: Officers were dispatched to a report of an individual switching parking spaces near the Grant Street Parking Lot. The officers found the driver, who claimed that he was only attempting to take a nap. The case was closed. Get your Alcohol! Wednesday, July 26, 11:58 p.m.: Officers were dispatched to investigate a report of two individuals passing alcohol out to others in public. Officers were unable to find the two purported distributors. —JENNIFER LIEN, EVI HEILBRUNN, MATTHEW WILLMOTT
...next day, after Rusty had left to run errands, Andrea told her mother Jutta that she was going to nap. Andrea then took at least 40 pills of her mother's trazodone, an antidepressant prescribed to help Jutta sleep. Andrea was lying unconscious in her mother's bed when Jutta walked in, saw the empty bottle and called 911. An ambulance arrived, with Rusty following behind. As paramedics carried Andrea away on a stretcher, her sons sobbed uncontrollably...
MetroNaps, a company that pioneered the concept of selling naps in sleep environments, is seeing the change in corporate attitudes firsthand. The New York City-- based company opened its first sleep-pod center in 2004 in the Empire State Building, a place where workers could pay $14 and discreetly tuck in to one of the pod-shaped, hooded recliners for a midday nap and recharge for 20 minutes. The company is expanding the concept with franchises -- the first one opened in New York City's financial district in March -- but MetroNaps co-founder Arshad Chowdhury says he is discovering...