NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
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if you’re going to be frustrated because the subw<br />
ay is slow, you’re not going to do well here.”<br />
~~~~~~~~~~<br />
<strong>NYT</strong>-1208<br />
To Sleep on the Subway, Maybe, but to Dream? Poor C<br />
hance ... By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY<br />
A sleep researcher, with the aid of a drowsy strap<br />
hanger, set out to discover whether dozing undergr<br />
ound was worth its while.<br />
===== notyet<br />
A ride on the New York subway can be a sensory ove<br />
rload: musicians perform for change; conductors pl<br />
ead to those who hold open train doors to relent;<br />
and passengers, often in unimaginably close proxim<br />
ity, subject one another to all sorts of sights, s<br />
ounds, smells and touches, preferably inadvertent.<br />
Amid all of that, some New Yorkers nevertheless ma<br />
nage to fall asleep. Seats are found, trains begin<br />
their rhythmic rattles of movement, and eyelids f<br />
lutter closed. Gritted jaws loosen, furrowed brows<br />
release and heads nod.<br />
People outside of New York may wonder how in a cit<br />
y that never sleeps, so many New Yorkers manage to<br />
doze on the subway. There is no law against it, b<br />
ut those who take subway catnaps do so at their ow<br />
n risk; a recent Metropolitan Transportation Autho<br />
rity committee meeting featured a presentation on<br />
how criminals seeking iPhones slice open the pocke<br />
ts of dozing passengers.<br />
So are these naps really worth the trouble?<br />
Dr. Carl Bazil, director of the Epilepsy and Sleep<br />
Division at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columb<br />
ia University Medical Center, offered to try to fi<br />
nd out.<br />
After Dr. Bazil stepped into an uptown A train on