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He was two weeks learning to use his flippers; and all that while he floundered in and out of the water, and coughed and grunted and crawled up the beach and took catnaps on the sand, and went back again, until at last he found that he truly belonged to the water.

They are very friendly and playful and enjoy causing mischief and taking catnaps.

Catnaps, research shows, can maintain or improve an employee's performance and alertness for two to 12 hours post-nap.

THIS refers to 'Catnaps' (Nov 6) by Capt Afaq Rizvi relating to an incident involving PIA Capt Amir Akhtar Hashmi who was caught napping in business class for over two hours on an eight-hour flight from Islamabad to London.

At any rate, it looks like Didga and Boomer will keep enjoying a life of adventure-in between some catnaps.

And despite possessing a penchant for regular catnaps, the world's favourite moggie, whose Facebook page has 80,000 fans from around the world, has raised thousands of pounds for the charity which provides Lego sets to children in hospices More than PS2,600 was banked as long ago as August 12.

But when a mobster catnaps his furry friend, Rell and Clarence are forced to impersonate a pair of assassins to get him back.

During the flight over the Arabian Sea, Piccard managed to take two brief catnaps of 10 minutes each with the help of self-hypnosis, preparing himself for the longer, five-day, non-stop flights across the Pacific and Atlantic oceans to come.

Out go the daytime benders and lunchtime trysts with a variety of dark-haired mistresses; in come the passive-aggressive catnaps, the games of solitaire, and last but certainly not least, the reading of novels.

And a young baby who perhaps only "catnaps" during the day makes it hard to catch up.

The more rats are sleep-deprived, the more some of their neurons take catnaps -- with consequent declines in task performance.

These catnaps can be extremely valuable in keeping the employee alert overall and may, in the final analysis, be harmless to operations.