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...just a frivolous attempt to tamper with nature, the experiment could conceivably be the first step in providing extra daylight to sun-starved northern cities, extending planting and harvest periods and aiding nighttime rescue missions. Those goals will remain distant, however, until the Russians' space program, cash-starved after the end of the cold war, gets a new infusion of money. They'll need more than mirrors to pull off that trick...
...their faces blackened with camouflage paint, their bodies braced for confrontation, they were met and blinded by the glare of television lights. But the farcical aspect of the first live military landing soon faded as the troops fanned out from their beachhead into the anarchic city of Mogadishu. By daylight, the airport was secured, the city port occupied, and for the first time in two years, most of the firepower belonged to friendlies. Though it had barely begun, the U.S. operation had already raised great expectations among Somalis that peace might actually come to a starving land that had been...
Computer-programmed to reset itself for daylight savings time, the clock is guaranteed to run smoothly for the next 99 years...
Marching ominously in black, hooded robes, more than 20 science fiction lovers performed their annual rites in bidding Daylight Savings Time farewell early Sunday morning...
...remember Chronos by changing theirclocks, watches and sundials," he said, arguingthat the god of time should not be taken forgranted. "Thus was created Daylight Savings Time...