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...lead to its cute, café-lined hub, the Place de la Liberté, where art galleries and shops hawk handmade children's toys and souvenirs. Further north, it's your turn for a treat. Brantome and Bourdeilles are delightful villages where you can lull the little ones to sleep, then sneak off for a glass of wine in a café by the river. After all that parenting, you've earned every last drop...
...chocolate-covered espresso beans until our primary care physicians cut us off,” recounted Sacerdote, who earned his doctorate from Harvard and has co-written several papers with Glaeser. “He always had a great supply of Dominican cigars, and you can’t sleep for a day after having one of those. For many of his graduate students, including me, he’s the whole reason we stayed in economics and saw it as a worthwhile, fun and useful pursuit,” Sacerdote wrote...
...individual players have fights with their girlfriends, they get bad nights’ sleep, they get food poisoning just like all of us do. And so to go in with any prejudgment about what’s going to happen is kind of silly...
Bear with me here. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the average life expectancy for a 22-year-old of vigorous health is 55.5 more years. That’s 20,257 days or 486,180 hours. (I used a calculator for this part.) Assuming that I sleep for eight hours a night and that I work a nine-to-five job (yeah, you’re right, it’ll probably be less sleep and more work…), I’m left with only 162,060 hours of “free time?...
...having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give C’s. How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for—a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and this is what gets A’s. Underline them, capitalize them, insert them...