Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first learned about time zones back in elementary school. The earth rotates, the sun only shines on half the earth at a given moment. When Bostonians wake up in the morning, people in New Delhi are fast asleep; when the sun shines in New Delhi, Boston is in bed. The reasoning made perfect sense...
...College Time, the relative positions of sun and earth bear no correlation to sleeping and waking hours. Nor does a student's nine o'clock Spanish section. Bizarre...
...protects the driver from the glare and intensity of headlights behind him, has already been installed on 5 million cars. Working on an extension of the same technology, Gentex, which developed the mirror, is testing auto glass that will dim at the flip of a switch to protect against sun glare and become completely opaque-to thwart prying eyes-when the ignition is off and the car is unoccupied...
...crack in the sun...
...safe, letting his emotions dry as if they were Lascaux's cave paintings, sensitive to light and life. He forgets that his work is contemporary, the worth of its preservation has yet to be proven. Hidden in distant caves it loses, its chance for glory in the sun...