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Until you move away from home. You watch from afar as your precious college team struggles and falls to a team from a nowhere conference like the Sun Belt. Wham, bam—a couple bad plays and that bowl berth is looking pretty slim...
Even though I usually refrain from observing four-twenty, it gets a whole lot lamer when it’s dark out. The Boston sun will bid us a dismally premature farewell—setting prior to 4:20 p.m.—from this week through late December, leaving us indebted to Thomas Edison for practically everything we do. The perpetual darkness of early winter may be a drag, but probably more irritating and monotonous is the industrial scale on which we complain about its inconvenience. Restoring year-round Daylight Saving Time could silence that unpalatable grumbling...
...saves energy. That’s why we have it. Most consumers of energy waste daylight by waking up after sunrise and going to bed after sunset; for seven months of the year, Daylight Saving Time recovers an hour of this wasted daylight and allows us to use the sun for an additional hour in the evening, free of charge. For the other five months, it’s a different story. To the delight of petroleum exporters, we burn large quantities of oil to power the light bulbs that keep this country’s homes and businesses running...
...need look only at Merchant—the career sixth man who finally got his chance in the sun during his final season—single-handedly carrying the Crimson through the final game of the season, burying shot after unexpected shot in a desperate effort to carry his squad past Brown. Or Prasse-Freeman, who led the nation for a time in assists per game en route to setting the Ivy career record...
...with neon-tinted karaoke lounges and rowdy bars. The other side looks like a sprawling concentration camp, with barrackslike buildings and barbed wire strewn about. This is the North Korean town of Hyesan. A giant sign on a hill above the riverbank proclaims: "Long live General Kim Jong Il, Sun of the 21st Century!" But the 21st century doesn't appear to have graced Hyesan yet. At night, the city is pitch black, save one seven-story building that is inexplicably ablaze with light. The Chinese who peer across the river at the glowing building, which is empty of inhabitants...