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...roommate, who is a good friend of mine, always sets his alarm for 7 a.m., and then hits snooze every 10 minutes until he finally gets up at noon. His lack of consideration for my own need for restful sleep is really irritating and I’m not sure how to approach the problem...
...million before taxes and interest. Like Branson, Sawiris is a music lover - he calls himself a "party animal" - and has a taste for risky ventures. To date, six Orascom engineers and technicians have been kidnapped in Iraq and two of its sites have been shot at. "I didn't sleep for a month" after the kidnappings, Sawiris told Time, though he helped secure the hostages' eventual release. But in business terms, it has been worth it. "It's one of our most profitable operations," says Sawiris, 50, sprawled on a leather chair in Orascom Telecom's ornate Paris office...
...Surely sleep deprivation and demanding toddlers are an intellectual distraction, not an asset...
...myself, I would never deny that children challenge parents' mental resources. And of course sustained sleep deprivation can have a serious impact on your thinking, which is why you have to be smart enough from the get-go to negotiate for naps with your partner, spouse or mother-in-law. My argument is that there are many surprising and fundamental ways in which, despite all the boring time you now have to spend picking up Lego bits from the floor, the experiences of having and rearing children can stimulate and enrich your brain and make you smarter...
...issue of capital access for Native American communities. It is the fact that it is far easier to borrow money to add a thirty-five foot by thirty-five foot den to your house in Lexington than it is to build a bedroom so that children will have to sleep less than four kids to a bedroom in a Native American area of New Mexico. And that too is not as it should be. We made, I believe, some progress in making capital more available and encouraging financial institutions to provide more capital in these areas and actually some institutions...