Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four days a month, as do the other volunteers. The cafe is open Monday through Saturday, serving breakfast and lunch only. When their labors are done, Murdean was saying of Doris, "she goes home exhausted and lays on the davenport, and maybe fixes me some soup and goes to sleep. I mean it's a lot of work...
...should not be said that Arnaud de Borchgrave never sleeps. True, he puts in 18-hour days at the Washington Times, showering his staff with "Arnaud- grams," notes scrawled on yellow paper suggesting stories and sources. He bounces around the newsroom, nagging, second-guessing or just plain giving orders. But he does sleep. The proof is in his office, which contains a queen- size bed. Though de Borchgrave owns an apartment in Washington, he spends many nights at work, rising before dawn to read the day's papers...
...reason we couldn't get our act together is because we weren't concurrently awake for more than two hours out of any 24. Larry sleeps during the day. I sleep at night. I'd get up in the morning and Larry's light would still be on. He'd be totally asleep, with all his clothes on. I'd come back from class in the afternoon and the room would be dark and Larry would still be asleep. Except this time his books would be on the floor...
...even than the abundance of casual pregnancies is the absence of parental models. Too old for her age, and too young, one high school girl reads Ingenue, Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle and the Bible alone at night in her room. Why the last? "Because I'm nervous, and it helps me sleep. All the trees and fruit, the figs, begat and begat going down like the multiplication tables...
...Researchers around the world are canceling vacations, ignoring their families, moving cots into their labs and subsisting on takeout food and microwave popcorn. "We've been working since right after Christmas," says Physicist J.T. Chen of Wayne State University in Detroit. "We do experiments almost every day. Sometimes we sleep only three or four hours. Maybe it was like this when the transistor was invented, but in my personal experience this is unique." Says Japanese Chemist Kohji Kishio: "The race is for the Nobel Prize...