UNITED NATIONS: Progress

It was not a big step toward a unified world, but still, it was a step. The U.N. Economic Commission for Europe announced last week that almost every European government (with the exception of the Soviet Union and Great Britain) had agreed to start daylight-saving time this year on the third Sunday in April.

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ROLF-DIETER HEUER, CERN's director general, on the Large Hadron Collider smashing proton beams together for the first time
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