Word: nightworkers
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...would be snapped up faster by competitors during the day. The corporate investigators who work for International Business Research of Princeton, N.J., a firm that guards against computer hackers, can work at home because their beepers and e-mails alert them when their suspects go online. For some people, nightwork plays better to their adventurous nature: Richard Tapp, a deputy sheriff in Orange County, N.C., is charged by the adrenaline rush he feels at night, when he gets more interesting calls because "the freaks come...
Rectal temperature sensors is extreme, but not too extreme for those at Brigham and Women's Hospital attempting to find out the best way to help people adapt to nightwork. By evaluating the role light exposure may have on night time alertness and performance, scientists hope to uncover ways to make nightwork easier...
...true that in novels like Nightwork Shaw could provide very intelligent entertainment. It is also true that in the midst of glitz he remained an agreeable, unpretentious man. But much of the late fiction was unbearably wooden, and much of the late life was marred by Shaw's insatiable womanizing. In the end, conviviality deteriorated to an often befuddled alcoholism that was more distressing than Shnayerson cares to admit...
...California cities after his parents, both teachers, were divorced. At 14, he began working the graveyard shift at a pizza house in National City, a San Diego suburb. "It was a tiny community," he likes to recall. "The main drag was a transvestite, and the average age was deceased." Nightwork hampered his high school studies, but not his education. "I encountered a whole different element-people a lot older than me, pool hustlers and Mafioso types. I grew up real fast...
...have just seen: usually they don't remember the key story points and usually they don't know what it was all about. And, of course, they are dreadful bores. Robert Altman, generally the most interesting of directors, forthrightly admits that 3 Women is based on some nightwork he recently did, but his candor regarding the source of the movie does not redeem it from tedium...