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...continually revising the definition of a second, atomic clocks would be adjusted by adding a leap second each time an appreciable discrepancy was detected by observations made at the International Earth Rotation Service in Paris. Since then, 24 leap seconds have been added, either on June 30 or Dec. 31; the last one was tacked on in 2005. At that rate, "it will be 5,040 years before we gain an extra hour," Novick says...
...Harvard Awards Kennedy Honorary Degree Dec...
...show an exposed nipple or areola, which it considers obscene material. Roman and several other women have banded together to protest this policy, forming a Facebook group that has grown to tens of thousands of members. TIME talked to Roman about the virtues of breast-feeding, her group's Dec. 27 "nurse-in," and why her toddler daughter is still nursing...
...What was this "nurse-in" that your group held on Dec. 27? My friend Stephanie organized an event in Palo Alto outside Facebook headquarters for people who lived there. She also organized the online event where people posted profile pictures of nursing babies and changed their status to say that breast feeding is not obscene. We had a lot of people do it and it's obviously gotten us a lot of attention, which is what we want...
...Dec. 27, some 11,000 protesters held a virtual nurse-in by uploading breast-feeding photos onto their Facebook profiles, and 20 or so women showed up at the company's headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif., to breast-feed there. By Dec. 30, more than 85,000 members had joined a Facebook group called "Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene...