Word: nods
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Snooze news from the National Sleep Foundation's 2005 poll: 26% of adults get eight or more hours of sleep on weekdays; the number rises to 49% on weekends ? The average time it takes to fall asleep is 23 minutes; 12% nod off in less than 5 minutes; 8% need an hour or more ? Thirteen percent report that they get a good night's sleep a few times a month, 10% say rarely, and 3% say never
...Kerry, for now, doesn't seem daunted. Discussing his health-care bill at a town-hall meeting in Atlanta, he offered advice on how to get it passed that seemed a nod toward his future. "We had a very, very close race," he said. "I've learned in politics that you don't stop. You've got to keep going...
Harvard captain Noah Welch grabbed the first-team nod, the fourth All-ECAC award of his career. As a freshman, Welch was tapped for the league’s all-rookie squad, and was successively named to the ECAC’s second team and honorable-mention unit...
...addition to his first-team nod at goaltender, McKee also came away with Player of the Year honors and the Dryden Award as the league’s top player between the pipes...
...cynical take on the Core curriculum will cause many a recent Harvard graduate to nod in agreement. Douthat suggests a Columbia-style great books curriculum as an alternative, allowing Harvard undergraduates to gain a traditional, broad-based liberal arts education in lieu of the narrow, overly specific “approaches to knowledge” introduced in esoteric classes like Literature and Arts C-42, “Constructing the Samurai” and Literature and Arts B-31, “The Portrait.” No argument here—undergrads have wasted too much time learning about...