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January 10, 2005: If The Days Seem To Be Slipping By Even Faster . . .

. . . it's not your imagination.

According to Richard Gross at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the Dec. 26 earthquake that caused the massive tsunami that devastated south Asia and east Africa also redistributed the mass of the planet enough to alter the rate of the planet's spin. By 3 millionths of a second.

No, really. Check out the CNN story.

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