Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...dragged on and the U.S. forces sat and waited, we began to worry about starving. We decided to store all the food we could get our hands on. Together our group had several thousand dollars in cash. So Imad began to buy up more supplies. He delivered food between midnight and 2 o'clock. On my computer we began to keep track of our provisions. Now we could tell how many cans of tuna we had, how many kilos of dry beans. We even factored in how much protein we had, how many calories. That computer gave us great comfort...
...through day, evening and night duty. Such workers are both sleep starved and out of synch with their natural sleep-wake cycle. For most people, biological alertness peaks in the morning and early evening. It dips mildly in the afternoon (hence the tendency toward midday naps) and plummets between midnight and dawn. Night workers are butting against those rhythms, forcing themselves to stay awake just when their bodies are nudging them...
...single trucks is 10 times as high as the rate during the day. Experts say it is no surprise that the Exxon Valdez oil spill as well as the disasters at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, and the nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island occurred after midnight, when distractions are few and operators are liable to be at their drowsiest...
...Japan. Officeworkers in Tokyo often commute for an hour or more, arriving at their desks at 9 a.m. and staying until 8 p.m. or later. Then they go out to eat and drink with colleagues, an essential part of the job, and catch the last train home at midnight. Workers get only 113 days off a year, compared with Americans' 134 and Germans' 145. Exhausted Japanese can be seen sleeping everywhere: on subways and trains, in elevators, at concerts and baseball games, and during business meetings. The usual apology: "Well, it's not exactly polite...
...sleep, then they might as well get some work done. Reporter-researcher Linda Williams pays bills in the wee hours and vacuums her apartment (poor neighbors). Steve Hart, who designed the accompanying charts on sleep rhythms, has even been known to replace the grout around his bathroom tiles after midnight. It's not getting to sleep that bothers associate art director Ina Saltz; it's what happens to her in the middle of the night. She sometimes talks aloud in her sleep with such intensity that it wakes her up and her husband as well...