Car accidents increase by about 10 percent the day after clocks are set forward in the spring, and decrease by a smaller amount the day after clocks are set back one hour to standard time in the fall.
Football fever runs so hot in the Oregon-size country of Ghana that
national industries are required to shut down during important football
matches so there will be enough energy to power the country’s
televisions. Throughout Ghana, whenever the national team plays, the
event is cause for a nationwide party.
Uncontrolled cockpit sleep does happen, which is what the FAA and the public really should fear. In one terrifying case, a flight from the East Coast to Los Angeles continued hundreds of miles past Los Angeles and out to sea before one of the two sleeping pilots awakened.
The Most Common English Nouns: 1. Time 2. Person 3. Year 4. Way 5. Day
A
search on Yahoo.com for “time” results in more than 7 billion hits. In
contrast, there are fewer than 3 billion hits for “money” and less than
a billion hits for “sex.”
We need the human touch to survive: handshakes, pats on the back, strokes across the forehead, even kisses on the cheek. [In terms of the chemicals that are released with touch.]
