Word: daylighting
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...filmmaker is shot and stabbed to death in broad daylight on the edge of a city park. Streets fill with tens of thousands of angry protesters. Police storm an apartment, are attacked with a grenade, and arrest two accused terrorists. One Islamic school is bombed, another burned to the ground, and more than a dozen mosques and churches set ablaze - with a severed pig's head left as a calling card outside one of the mosques. Can all of this really be happening in the calm, tolerant, liberal Netherlands...
Every November the shortening of the days brings bouts of seasonal depression to Harvard’s work-addled undergraduates. This year, doubtless, will be worse for Harvard’s mental health. The crushing defeat for the Democrats on Tuesday coupled with the depression-inducing move to daylight savings time-—which takes daylight away from college students regularly awake from 10:30 a.m. to 3 a.m.—will certainly take their toll on the Kremlin by the Charles...
...three or four hours, feeling his way with his feet so as not to hit a trip wire. As the sun came up the next morning, Jenkins tied an extra white T shirt he had brought with him around the muzzle of his M-14 weapon. Not long after daylight broke, Jenkins saw a North Korean soldier on the other side of a 3-m high fence, but the soldier's back was turned against the cold wind. Jenkins yelled to attract his attention, and the soldier turned around and hit an alarm. Then a number of other troops arrived...
...Number of foreign U.N. election workers kidnapped last week-in broad daylight-in Kabul, the first foreigners to be abducted in the Afghan capital...
...million bbl. of oil per day - about 60% of Yukos' output - has been valued by Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein at between $14.7 and $17.3 billion. Reports last week suggested the Kremlin might hand it to a Russian rival, Gazprom, for a fraction of that price. "It's robbery in broad daylight," complains Robert Amsterdam, a lawyer for Khodorkovsky, who says the Kremlin has no right to proceed with what he terms "the world's largest hostile takeover." So far the firm isn't saying whether it will mount...