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Chavez Hands Nation New Time Zone

Setting clocks back 30 minutes will 'condition brains'

By Colleen Barry,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 24, 2007 4:45 AM CDT

(Newser) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez plans to bump clocks in his nation back half an hour next month to add daylight to citizens' lives and create "a more fair distribution of the sunrise," Reuters reports. The change will particularly help poor children who wake...   Read full story »

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