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Even if it's far away I still get home before I'd go to bed on a normal work night.
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With the help of Chiara Cirelli, who also works at the University of Wisconsin, Dr Tononi has created a mutant fruit fly that sleeps only two or three hours a night. (A normal fly sleeps between eight and 14 hours.) The mutation itself is in a gene for a nerve-cell protein of a type known as an ion channel.
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Timothy Warmen, the understudy playing him that night, would have chewed all the scenery in a normal production.
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Then their bedtime was delayed an hour each night, until after a week they were back to a normal bedtime (11 pm).
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Even after another full night on the town, on Sunday morning I felt like a normal, functioning human being.
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And indeed his defenders say that in Italian business circles it can be perfectly normal to set a jocular and relaxed tone before a difficult meeting, by discussing last night's football, or even teasing your colleagues about their love lives.
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But fundamentally, the problem with all these patterns is the clash between trying to work at night, when everyone else including family and friends are not, while having a "normal" life in between researchers say.
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Ms Cooper will say she also wants to see facilities for fathers improved in maternity units, to allow them to stay the night if their baby is in a special care baby unit, or to visit outside normal hours.
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Ms McManus said Kieran had gone to work as normal on Saturday night but as her family were getting ready for bed, they received a text message telling them that he had been shot and was being treated by paramedics.
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It is hardly surprising that some plastic surgeons ask themselves why they should spend hours repairing a smashed face or grafting a severe burn (often at night or weekends) when they can enjoy many times the fee doing a facelift during normal working hours for a patient who appreciates and values it.
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