Until recently, losing an hour of daylight in the fall presented a problem for the candy industry. That’s because Daylight Saving Time traditionally ended on the last Sunday in October, a.k.a. before Halloween night. Intense lobbying to push back the date went on for decades. According to one report, candy lobbyists even went so far as to […]
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The portion of the flag denoting honor is the canton of blue containing the stars representing states our veterans served in uniform. The field of blue dresses from left to right and is inverted only when draped as a funeral cloth over the casket of a veteran who has served our country honorably in uniform.
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Writing a novel in three weeks. Getting a six-pack over the summer. Recording an album in a week. Writing a new poem every day.
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The pen is mightier than the keyboard So say researchers Pam Mueller of Princeton University and Daniel Oppenheimer of UCLA, who recently published a paper with that title in Psychological Science. The three experiments they did led them to conclude that using laptops for notetaking might actually impair learning. Why? Because it often leads people to
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