Word: nighter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What we were waiting for as children surely was not pulling an all-nighter to finish a paper. We weren't looking forward to 3 a.m. caffeine rushes that make the words of Locke's "Second Treatise on Government" swim in front of our eyes. We just wanted to stay up and watch "Saturday Night Live." What we should have learned by now is that too many consecutive hours of consciousness ruin a good life...
...Laid back people stress too, but the stress they feel is at the last minute on the night before a paper's due. I'd rather plan my stress," Finkelstein says. "If I pull an all-nighter, it tends to be a week before...
...without it, and most people -- including journalists at TIME -- don't get enough. While writing this week's cover story on sleep deprivation, associate editor Anastasia Toufexis realized "how little sleep I get -- typically six to seven hours." For this story, she got even less, pulling an all-nighter to meet a deadline. As TIME's Business editor for three years, Charles Alexander says he was "notorious for staying at work all night and grabbing a few hours of sleep in my office." His record: 78 hours on the job with 13 hours of intermittent naps. Today, as Sciences editor...