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...based in Connecticut and sells guitars and other music equipment, Spremulli spent a sick day at home in 1995 developing a small, bare-bones website for his company. It simply explained what the company sold and where it was located. A couple of weeks later, a customer in Meridian, Miss., liked what he saw online and proceeded to place an order over the phone for a Takamine guitar. More orders flooded in. "We realized people liked sitting on the computer buying things, and that's what got us to go big time," says Spremulli. He invested $3,900 with...
...doesn't officially begin at Greenwich, but don't tell that to anyone in Britain. The London borough, home to the Royal Observatory and located right smack on the 0[degree] meridian, will mark the stroke of midnight, Greenwich mean time, by shooting a green laser beam into the sky and bouncing a satellite signal around the world that will set off international celebrations...
...century ago, the International Meridian Conference did Fiji a favor. The conferees laid out the international date line along the 180th meridian but put an eastward kink in it to keep the people of the far-flung islands of the Fijian archipelago on the same page of their day planners. Now Fijians are calling that good turn a bad one. Repudiating the date line as an artificial construct, they claim their country, which straddles the 180th line of longitude, will be the first to greet the year...
Right or wrong, Fijians are positively infected with me-first fever. The centerpiece of their New Year's Eve preparations is the installation of a Meridian Wall and monument along the 180th longitude, where it crosses Udu Point on the island of Vanua Levu. Sealed within the estimated 100,000 bricks of the wall will be vials containing messages from around the world. The wall will be one of the starting points of a Unity Torch Relay, beginning Dec. 25 and finishing at the capital, Suva, on New Year...
PRIME TIME: A numbered counter that shows hundredths of a second straddles the prime meridian at Britain's Royal Greenwich Observatory...