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Almost exactly a year ago, Florida State Senator Greg Steube left the barbershop with more than a haircut. The woman giving him a trim complained that after the recent time change, her kids' schedules were off. Other customers had different objections to moving clocks back an hour. Then someone Googled why so many of us "spring forward" in March and "fall back" in November to observe daylight saving time.

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Prerau has studied the effects of daylight saving time on traffic accidents and street crime: both decreased. Voter turnout increased. He also found that people would stay awake an extra hour to watch their favorite TV programs

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Many countries adopted daylight saving during World War I to conserve coal during the war. Daylight saving time was stopped in the United States in 1919, after the war's end. It was re-established nationally during World War II.

In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed a law choosing dates for daylight saving. However, states could decide not to adopt it.

The 1970s brought an energy crisis. Congress enacted earlier starting dates for daylight time. Oil and gas were in short supply after conflicts in the Middle East, where much of the oil used in the United States came from.

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Coastal cities are running out of land. They're becoming increasingly endangered as sea levels are estimated to rise as much as 7 inches in some places by 2030. Ninety percent of the largest global cities are at risk because of climate change, said U.N. official Victor Kisob.

Amina Mohammed is one of the U.N.'s leaders. She said the proposal is more unusual than approaches the United Nations would have taken even four years ago. "We are trying to think ahead," she said.

The floating platforms will be made of wood and bamboo. Each platform is about the size of three White Houses. This would be a small piece of a potentially bigger puzzle, said Bjarke Ingels of the Bjarke Ingels Group. It's the architectural business partnering with Oceanix.

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A volcano is a beautiful and dangerous natural phenomenon. The magma chamber, an extremely hot part which people rarely see, is under the Earth surface beneath the bed’s rock. The conduit is running from the volcano’s magma chamber to the crater which is at the top of the volcano.

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