As he threw down his book, stretched his legs towards the embers in the grate, and clasped his hands at the back of his head, in that agreeable afterglow of excitement when thought lapses from examination of a specific object into a suffusive sense of its connections with all the rest of our existence—seems, as it were, to throw itself on its back after vigorous swimming and float with the repose of unexhausted strength—Lydgate felt a triumphant delight in his studies, and something like pity fo
Arbuthnot, spendthrift of excuses for lapses, thought Mrs.
One recent study, for example, found that when people got less than six hours of sleep a night, they had trouble completing basic tasks: They had a fivefold increase in attention lapses and their reaction time nearly doubled, compared with people who slept seven or more hours, even when they didn't feel tired or realize that their performance was suffering.
Not surprisingly, those who had eight hours of sleep hardly had any attention lapses and no cognitive declines over the 14 days of the study.
In reality, there are lapses in adherence to such stipulations.
With up to 80 per cent of pregnant women saying they suffer memory lapses, the finding could prove controversial.
But hackers from Russia and Eastern Europe have been involved in a number of recent high-profile security lapses.
