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Daylight-saving Time Is Literally Killing Us
Hilary Brueck
Daylight-saving time is a killer.
The annual ritual in which we "gain" an hour of evening light by pushing the clocks forward may seem like a harmless shift. But each year on the Monday after the springtime switch, hospitals report a 24% spike in heart- attack visits around the US.
Just a coinci- dence? Probably not. Doctors see the opposite trend in the fall: The day after we turn back the clocks, heart attack visits drop 21% as people enjoy a little extra
pillow time.
"That's how frag- ile and suscepti- ble your body is to even just one hour of lost sleep," sleep expert Matthew Walker, author of "How We Sleep," previously told Business Insider.
The reason that springing the clocks forward can kill us comes down to interrupt- ed sleep sched- ules. This Sunday, March 10, instead of the clock turning from 1:59 to 2:00 a.m. as usual, it will tick to 3:00 a.m. instead.
For those of us who will be asleep in
bed, researchers
estimate we'll all deprive ourselves of an extra 40 minutes of sleep because of the clock change. And night-shift workers will get paid only for seven hours of work instead of the usual eight, according to fed- eral law.
Walker said day- light-saving time, or DST, is a kind of "global experi- ment" we perform twice a year. And the results show just how sensitive our bodies are to the whims of changing sched- ules: In the fall the shift is a blessing; in the spring it's a fatal curse.
Fornication Will No Longer Be Illegal In Utah
By Ben Winslow
SALT LAKE CITY -- The Utah State Legislature is making sex out- side of marriage legal.
In a bill cleaning up Utah's crimi- nal code, law- makers repealed the misdemeanor crime of fornica- tion. The House passed Senate Bill 43 on a 41-32 vote. It previously passed the Utah State Senate and now goes to Governor Gary
Herbert for his signature or veto.
The legislature previously passed a bill removing adul- tery and sodomy among consent- ing adults as crimes in Utah. Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, said court rulings have found the laws are unenforce- able and it was time to remove them from the books.
The bill wasn't popular with
some of the more conservative members of the Utah House of Representatives. Rep. Merrill Nelson, R- Grantsville, said he objected. So did Rep. Keven Stratton, R-Orem.
"What is legally is often far below what is morally right," Rep. Stratton said. "And I recognize our laws are not strong enough to rule a immoral people."