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Perfect timing
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When the clock strikes 8:02 tonight, time will read in perfect symmetry for 60 seconds — or 20:02, 20/02, 2002, if you prefer to think of it that way.
The last time such symmetry took place was before the days of the digital watch. It was 10:01 a.m. on Jan. 10, 1001. The next time the same pattern will occur is in 110 years: 21:12 21/12, 2112.
— Tanya Bricking, Advertiser staff writer
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| Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters plays at Medals Plaza. |
Mosh pits packed with undulating bodies. Athletes body-surfing atop throbbing masses. Frenzied fans screaming at top pitch for big stars.
No, it's not the crowd at the ice-dancing competition. The hottest ticket at the Winter Olympics is smack-dab in the middle of downtown Salt Lake City.
In a lot owned by the Mormon Church, 20,000 people are jamming nightly to the likes of Smash Mouth, the Barenaked Ladies and the Foo Fighters.
The concerts at the Olympics Medals Plaza have turned conservative Salt Lake City into a rockin' nucleus of fun.
Not bad for an organizing committee whose chief was amused to discover the Barenaked Ladies "includes no ladies" and "are clothed."
— Associated Press
Correction: The same perfect symmetry of time will occur in 110 years: 21:12 21/12, 2112. A previous version of this article contained incorrect information.
