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Madigan-Curtis got up earlier, at 7 a.m., in order to pack her bag and grab a few bananas, she says. Worried that she might oversleep, Madigan-Curtis decided to enlist some outside help...

Author: By David Zhou, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Runners Take To Boston Streets | 4/19/2005 | See Source »

What makes Seabiscuit such a winning celebrity is that even before he died, he couldn't do the talk shows, couldn't write his autobiography and hadn't the faintest idea of how much people loved him. He was just an unhandsome little horse with a tendency to oversleep, overeat, act a little nutsy (difficult childhood) and win races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seabiscuit: The New Deal Steed | 8/4/2003 | See Source »

...generally do not attend class--because they are too tired or hung over--may be enticed to watch the broadcast lectures at their convenience as opposed to not at all. Students who would have gone to the lecture but were prevented from doing so by extenuating circumstances--sickness, accidental oversleep or off-campus activities--benefit from the broadcast of lectures on the web. This option provides these students with the opportunity to recapture the material they missed. For these students most of all, taping the lectures and broadcasting on the Internet "works" because watching the lectures off the Internet...

Author: By Judd B. Kessler, | Title: EDITORIAL NOTEBOOK: Economics in Constant Supply | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

...much caffeine as a child. The doctor always told you not to eat coffee grounds raw. You'll get an ulcer. You'll give your father a heart attack and your mother diabetes. You will never fall asleep. You don't deserve to fall asleep. And what if you oversleep...

Author: By Ghita Schwarz, | Title: Sleepless Nights | 1/26/1990 | See Source »

...wait to write home and tell them about this one," Meg continued. We had discovered we had a mutual tendency to oversleep. "I don't know why I came all the way to Australia to miss out on sleep. I could have done that at home," she muttered into her exam...

Author: By Lisa A. Taggart, | Title: Creatures From the Land Down Under | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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