Word: daylighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...momentum carry him helplessly forward and pitch him head first and untouched onto the turf. "It was humiliating," he says. "Just imagine shaking loose with all that grass in front of you and then falling down. Some of the guys kidded me about it. 'Show Owens daylight,' they said, 'and he doesn't know what to do with...
...going to interview Raquel Welch, everybody conjured up this image of her in a plunging minidress, batting her long eyelashes at me in seductive silence over a candlelit dinner." Alas, it wasn't like that at all, reports Jon. "Our first interview took place in broad daylight, with Raquel in a voluminous caftan, drinking Gatorade and complaining nonstop about the problems of being a modern sex goddess." Despite that somewhat disappointing start, Larsen spent the better part of two weeks with Raquel, observing her on the set of Myra Breckinridge, interviewing her in her dressing room and back home...
Something was obviously overriding the instructions provided by the planetarium stars. To test his hunch, Emlen began exposing the birds to periods of simulated daylight that lengthened faster than natural days. Within weeks he succeeded in advancing their biological clocks by six months. Though it was only spring at Cornell, the buntings showed physiological preparations for fall migration. Next Emlen exposed the birds to spring star patterns, which should have dictated a northward passage. But the birds seemed determined to fly south, as if it were fall...
...buntings' navigational skill lies in their body chemistry. It tells them not only when to travel but also whether to fly toward or away from the North Star. The most likely agent, he thinks, is a hormone or combination of hormones, secreted in response to varying amounts of daylight as the seasons change. If Emlen can identify these hormones and discover how they work, he may help explain how similar biological clocks work in other animals, including...
They blamed him for the teachers' strike, the sanitation workers' strike, bad snow removal, and even dirty streets. They blamed him for high taxes, high prices, deteriorating neighborhoods, loss ob jobs, smog, pollution, traffic jams, subway malfunctions, and once, even for turning clocks backwards for daylight saving time...