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...ignored Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) as they saw fit. The U.S. didn't sign its time zones into law until 1918. China used to have five time zones, but in 1949 communist leaders reorganized the country under one zone. Part of western Australia made up its time zone halfway between two official ones. And then there's the state of Indiana, which under the U.S.'s 1918 law fell into the Central Time Zone category. But in 1961, the Interstate Commerce Commission changed the time-zone lines so that half of Indiana fell into Eastern Time (a fact which...
...Crimson had a few solid scoring chances, with 15 shots in the first period and 14 in the second. Halfway through the opening frame, senior defenseman Doug Rogers rocketed a shot at McGill’s net and took a swipe at the rebound, but Morin was too quick and saved both attempts...
...which he exacted a symbolic revenge for Argentina's defeat by Britain in the 1982 Falklands War by scoring two goals to sink England, the first illegally with a concealed fist that he wryly attributed to "the hand of God", and the second following a sublime run from the halfway line leaving the England defense for dead...
...sure why, but I’m rallying against all of these patterns with a pattern of my own. Last week, however, my pattern was interrupted. I had the normal sandwich, this time with a Baja Blast Mountain Dew® and I sat down on my bench. I was halfway through my sandwich, on the bench with my headphones on, when a kid somewhere between 5-11 years old sat next to me. I can’t really tell how old kids are because, other than a summer camp counselor gig after senior year, I try to stay away...
...moments in my life. It was like going to therapy if therapists acted excited about what you were saying. Within two hours, he'd nailed my personality: "You have this neurotic ambivalence about going far enough to challenge things but not enough to ruin things. You do things halfway, and being confused about them is who you are." In all his fevered typing, Strauss got annoyed only once. "It's really frustrating that I haven't been able to string the pity sex in. It's a really good theme," he said...