Unique Clocks

The Winged Chariot of Time

Time is also employed to gauge where our society is in history. Think about the various clocks that we have running:

	Since 1947 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has included a "doomsday clock," ticking a countdown to nuclear oblivion. Between 1947 and 1994, the hands have been moved thirteen times.
	The Census Bureau has its population clock. What time is it? It's half past 267 million Americans, thank you.
	The Census Bureau also brings you its Economic Clock.
	The United Nations Development Program maintains a Poverty Clock, tallying the increase since January 17, 1996, in the number of people who live on less than one dollar a day around the world.
	In New York: "Our National Debt: ... Your Family Share ... The National Debt Clock.
	The United Nations Development Program's Poverty Clock ticks off the number of people around the world who are living on less than one dollar a day.
	Among the digital timepieces of the Millennium Institute are those marking the number of species becoming extinct each day and the number of years until one-third will be lost.
	Digital Doomsday is a "digital indicator of the threat to cyber-rights everywhere.
	The Teen Pregnancy Clock. Every 26 seconds another American adolescent becomes pregnant; every 56 seconds an adolescent gives birth.
	In 1993 there appeared in Times Square an electronic billboard that tallies the number of gun-related homicides.
	In Los Angeles: "Smoking Deaths This Year and Counting"
	World POPClock