Word: slept
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...Romney projected confidence Tuesday afternoon. All those phone calls, he said, persuaded him that voters making last-minute decisions were breaking strongly in his direction. McCain was equally upbeat, having slept in the same room he occupied prior to his 2000 landslide. "There is no superstition I won't indulge," he said...
...always been a pretty important part of my life, and now it’s just becoming a more important part of my career.” So how did Reilly prepare for this self-proclaimed “dream job?” “I slept with as many women as possible,” he says with a laugh, mentioning that Cox is legendary for his reckless lifestyle. But seriously, folks: “I prepare in different ways for every part. I usually try to fill in the gaps in my mind and in areas...
...Then it began to rain. At first a novelty, the downpour did not cease for the next two days and nights. We slept on wet tarps, our bear bags were soaked, and I had no article of dry clothing in all of my soggy backpack. I transformed from too-talkative and overeager to silently focused on survival. At the end of the third day, our leader announced that we would evacuate the area because of the danger of flooding...
...natural answer to getting too little sleep is to sleep more--perhaps a lot more. But hold on. Ferrie found that short sleepers who slept each night for five hours or less did indeed decrease their overall risk of dying within eight years when they snagged two to three more hours of sleep a night by the end of the study. But once they started piling up too much sleep, crossing the line to nine hours or more daily, the risk of dying--not from heart disease but from other causes--rises the same 110%. Too few subjects in Ferrie...
Back when scientists largely backed nurture in the nature-vs.-nurture debate, biologist Seymour Benzer found otherwise, paving the way for modern neurogenetics and discoveries in the treatment of Alzheimer's and other diseases. Inspired by the wildly different personalities of his two daughters, he found that fruit flies slept and acted differently when injected with the genes of other fruit flies--research that won him the U.S.'s richest science award, the Albany Medical Center Prize. Benzer...