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...undergraduate student was robbed and assaulted at knifepoint in front Widener Gate in broad daylight...
...days later, the same suspects were caught when they attempted to rob another undergraduate, this time using an umbrella as a weapon, also in broad daylight in Harvard Yard...
Better double-check your appointment schedules this Sunday, March 11. That's when daylight saving time will start - three weeks earlier than usual - in most of the U.S. and Canada. In an attempt to save electricity, the U.S. Congress introduced a provision in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 mandating that clocks "spring forward" three weeks earlier, on the second Sunday in March, and "fall back" a week later, on the first Sunday in November. But the energy conservation that extra hour of sunlight is supposed to deliver comes with a cost: computer glitches that some fear could...
...annoyance comes with a price tag. Jeffrey Hammond, senior analyst at Forrester Research, estimates the daylight saving time (DST) switch will cost the average company $50,000 in time and labor expenses - a conservative figure that doesn't take into account missed airline flights or forgotten appointments. That's a total of $350 million for the 7,000 publicly traded companies in the U.S. "In the aggregate it will probably be worth it, but right now it's an unfair tax on corporate America and even businesses worldwide that I don't think Congress thought about," says Hammond. Since most...
Double-check your computer calendars on March 11. A daylight-saving law passed two years ago means we spring ahead three weeks earlier, and the move may leave old machines in the dark...