Hader announced last week that he was leaving SNL after eight seasons to move to California and get more sleep, which meant his memorable characters were also saying goodbye.

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Not only was it much better than any of the US airline lounges, it certainly beat eating on the plane, and by skipping the entire inflight meal service, it let me get more sleep on an otherwise relatively short flight.

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Get more and better sleep.

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Don't assume they will suddenly get more energy or need less sleep when they're on vacation.

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Maybe you are more creative if you get enough sleep and spend time with your family.

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The competitors take turns sleeping in a shared single bed and get little more than five hours of sleep a night if they're lucky.

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This is a city where visitors who choose to stay in hotels in more bustling neighborhoods often don't get very much sleep, thanks to late-night revelers on motor scooters.

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Perry's performance was even more remarkable given that he was unable to get back to sleep after being woken up by a fire alarm at his hotel at 0330 BST.

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Now we have one more reason to sleep in ... and to get our tech news online instead of in print.

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They're also three times more likely to be depressed than their alert classmates who get enough sleep, a new study has found.

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"Society as a whole needs to stay more healthy, eat more healthy, take exercise, and get enough rest, including sleep, " says the chief executive of an Asian pharmaceutical company.

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Unless you sleep overnight at the theatre, you can't get more central than the Arden Hotel 16.

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Zich theorizes that one reason there are so many flu cases is that the heart of the flu season coincided with the December holiday season, meaning many people were already sleep-deprived from parties and were more likely to get sick.

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After sleeping for only four hours, people tend to eat more calories on the following day than when they get a good night's sleep, the study found.

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