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...commission invited Averell to a meeting last night to discuss the situation before they ruled. However, Averell did not attend. He said later he is still trying to recover from a weekend illness and slept through the meeting...
...When it looked like the ship was sinking, he rescued the project," Kleyman says. "There were several nights where he actually slept in the office...
Though he's a guy who so hates getting up in the morning that his wife has to phone to make sure he hasn't slept through his wake-up call, Boies bounds through a day that begins at 5:30 with the three morning news shows, continues through legal and political strategy meetings and ends with an appearance on Nightline. At a dinner squeezed in after The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and before Larry King, he orders a hamburger with absolutely nothing on it, a fetish of the unapologetic red-meat eater who doesn't want so much...
Lonnie Johnson had come home to tinker again. In 1982 the young nuclear scientist spent his days developing advanced space systems for the Strategic Air Command. At night, while his wife and kids slept upstairs, he used mathematic and scientific formulas to launch his own dreams from the basement. He had built a model of a heat pump that used water instead of unfriendly Freon. Attaching a homemade nozzle to the end of tubing and connecting it to his bathroom sink, he carefully turned on the water. It shot out a stream so powerful that its air currents ruffled...
...People inside had a real fear that they would be arrested during the night because that was when the crowds and media weren't around," said Laura M. Kerivan, a student who slept outside. "Every time the police stopped by checking up on things, we brought out video cameras and gathered people around...