Whistleblower Protection Laws for Healthcare Workers. Several federal and state laws prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who report practices by employers that threaten public health and safety, or violate the law.
The international date line is an imaginary north-south line drawn through the middle of the Pacific Ocean about half way around the world, close to the 180 degrees of longitude from the Prime Meridian, which cuts through Greenwich, England.
The date line is a central factor in Umberto Eco 's book The Island of the Day Before (1994), in which the protagonist finds himself on a becalmed ship, with an island close at hand on the other side of the IDL.