"If I wake up not feeling well, I just figure I'll soon feel better, " says Ms. Taylor, 50.

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" And I never say--even if I wake up at three in the morning--"There's nothing good on TV right now.

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Ms. DIVENS: I set up my Nobel browser to nobel.se, so if I'm not awake during a news cycle, the moment I wake up, I go down, log on, go to nobel.se and find out who won.

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What if I profiled people who truly love their jobs, who wake up and (usually) want to go into work every day?

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So we calculated that if we were home by 10, I could be asleep by 10:30, wake up at 3:30 am and still get five hours of sleep.

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