By Bob Condor

It’s Monday, time for another work week for many of us, maybe the final school month for others.

First order of business: Get a good night’s sleep.

Huh?

Jim Maas is a long-time researcher at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He says Americans treat sleep “like a luxury rather than a necessity.”

Getting enough rest, of course, makes a major difference in our morning alertness and all-day physical perfomance. Cases in point: Researchers have studied the sleep …