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Adults look absurd dozing in public: slumping head, snapping jaw, wheezing, slobbering, mouth agape. (Kids are another issue. A dozing kid is a poem.) Travel pillows compound the indiscretion by encompassing the neck with a felt boa constrictor.They make a natural, assuming unseemly, act seems unnatural and shaking. In the quest for rest, Cohen says, “individuals get over the dread of looking absurd.” Accomplish they work? Harvey Smith, an orthopedic surgeon and partner teacher at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, is suspicious — and there isn’t much accessible information. “This isn’t well-