"As we couldn't really send him out without his head, staff told the children Gordon was taking a nap, " he added.

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His subjects are taken, in the essayist's tradition, from the familiar things of life: sport, growing old, name-dropping, taking a nap, popular songs and so on.

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Imagine a truly artificial, man-made heart, one that is completely self-contained and is able to adapt itself automatically to the body's needs--whether taking a nap or running for a bus.

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She's taking a nap again?

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He goes on to suggest how you might even find taking a daily nap more productive in the long run than doing things that bring little to no return, packing into eight solid hours something greater than any 50-hour work week could produce in the big scheme of things.

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For example, when "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon was accidentally blasting throughout the newsroom last week, our attempt to capture the excitement was foiled by a Q that decided to get an early start on the weekend, taking a long unapproved nap.

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The cops tiptoed around me like I was a fussy baby taking an unexpected nap.

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He generally rises at 10:20 a.m. and tends to fast through the workday, taking his sole meal at dinner, after a half-hour power nap in his office lair, an 8-by-10 room with nothing but a scribble-filled whiteboard, purple couch, two orange earplugs and an inhaler.

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Instead, Mr Landry has been reborn as a wise and smiling grandfather, who is promising a four-day week for hard-pressed young parents while himself unashamedly taking an afternoon nap in what has been called the Camomile Campaign.

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