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...through these hidden treasures. New technologies enable us to find, analyze and manipulate molecules as never before. While today's laboratory scientists can synthesize new molecules from scratch at a pace unimaginable just a few decades back, promising compounds produced by nature's most creative creatures increasingly provide the optimum starting points...
This is not a personal thing. After all, I won back one of these two lost hours somewhere on my flight over the Atlantic between London and Boston. The main goal of changing to DST, however, is to save energy--shouldn't we all be able to find the optimum date for this change and implement it? If we can't all agree on such simplistic issues as when to change our clocks, how will we ever find a consensus on more difficult international problems where joining our available forces is an absolute necessity...