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One such moment occurred May 21, 2004, at the Central Coast Section championships, when Kaylyn Reyes, a Gunn freshman and the last performer of the night, topped a difficult routine in the uneven bars with a soaring back somersault.

The crowd erupted with applause, a reaction that grew even more passionate when the score was announced: a perfect 10, the only one in the 30-year history of the CCS competition.

Reyes won the all-around title with 39.475 points, earning her another first - the first 39-point score in section history.

Now, Reyes is entering her junior season with five individual CCS titles and a sizable chunk of section lore.

It's enough to overcome the tendinitis in her knees, the daily five-hour practices with her club team at Santa Clara's Airborne Gymnastics, and the $15,000 her single mother spends each year to finance two high-level gymnasts; Kaylyn's e...

"I never expected (the growth) in Draper." Despite the city's constantly changing face, she's involved herself — supporting the PTA, the Draper Arts Council, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, the Lions Club and the American Legion Auxiliary.

"When you live in Draper and it's small like that, you get involved with everything," she said.

"Draper is my home; it's just part of my life." Even now, Whetman keeps busy cutting clippings about Draper from both the Deseret Morning News and The Salt Lake Tribune and compiling them in scrapbooks for the city.

It's a tradition she began more than 20 years ago, and one that has expanded along with Draper.

She put together four scrapbooks for Draper in 2005 alone.

In spite of everything she does, Whetman is an unassuming lady who doesn't like the spotlight, said her da...

"I have a real down period in the afternoon — by 2 or 3 I'm flagging," says Claire Walker, a working mom who's normally up before dawn and often still working late at night.

She set up a quiet room at her South London consultancy, Firefly, with dim lighting, a big leather chair like the recliners used by dentists, and a set of headphones.

People duck in at different times of the day, but not for long, she says.

"A quick blast is a way to re-energize for the rest of day." Sleep experts say deep, lengthy slumber in the middle of the day can prove counterproductive and create an effect akin to jet lag.

Salvador Dali apparently guarded against this by napping with a spoon in his hand, held above a metal bowl.

As he descended deeper into the surreal world of REM slumber, the spoon would clatter into the bowl, waking him up.

"You don't go into a deep sleep, but just drift off," e...