Word: daylight
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...doesn’t have to be that way. The spring/summer’s Daylight Saving Time (DST) should be year-round...
Year-long Daylight Saving Time is green, safe, and economically sound, and based on personal experience it will make people happier. Long live sunny afternoons...
...while 20-year-olds might relish the extra hour of afternoon daylight afforded to us by the switch to Daylight Saving Time (DST) every summer (i.e. , the opposite switch to the one we made on Sunday), adopting DST all year round (and abandoning the fall/winter Standard Time entirely) would be a mistake...
...William Willet proposed in his pamphlet, “The Waste of Daylight,” that DST is beneficial because it “adds” more daylight in the evening hours, when people are better able to take advantage of the sun’s rays. “Under the most favorable circumstances, there then remains only a brief spell of declining daylight in which to spend the short period of leisure at our disposal,” Willet wrote. “If some of the hours of wasted sunlight could be withdrawn from...
...While the Turks drive their tanks through Barmani in broad daylight once a week, the PKK guerillas are more elusive. Although the Turkish army claims that the PKK is using northern Iraq as a staging ground for attacks inside Turkey, the PKK's main bases are in the Qandil mountains, near the border with Iran and beyond the easy reach of a large Turkish force. The few PKK bases near the Turkish border are also difficult to reach, located long distances on single-track dirt roads high in classic insurgency country. One camp that's home to some 300 fighters...