So far the system -- which uses a parent-set sunrise and moonset calculator, and also features a "Treasure Chest Music Selector" to pleasantly awaken your own little treasures -- doesn't seem to be commercially available, which is kind of a shame, because we know more than a few people who would love to trick their tiny terrors into bedtime at five o'clock on the daily.

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Both nights I was awakened by a pod of hippos providing a little night music: belching, bickering, grunting, and snorting their way toward sunrise.

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From midnight until well past sunrise, the crowd of 400 danced shoulder to shoulder, hip to hip, to music with a beat so driving it became hypnotic.

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