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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
March 9, 2007
He was a founding father who experimented with electricity, invented bifocals and lobbied for the turkey as the symbol of the fledgling United States. And in 1784, Benjamin Franklin proposed an idea that would evolve into daylight-saving time, changing the way we schedule our summers.
In an....