On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Mark Casteel went:

[a really good little first-day quiz, including...]

> 17.   As people age, they sleep less.  T

Within the past three years, I've seen a geriatric-medicine text that
says this isn't so--that older people just distribute their sleep more
evenly throughout the day.  In other words, they shunt some sleep time
into napping.  I'm sorry I can't cite the source.

--David Epstein
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