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Fred G. Kochak '96 had advice to offer the amateur gambler. "Black-jack has the best odds," he said. "You have the most control. Roulette is terrible because the little ball goes anywhere it damn pleases...
...other hand, sometimes newly empowered amateur typographers make "uneducated choices" and stick to them. The now-ubiquitous "Times Roman," originally designed for a London newspaper. Replaces such older faces as"Bodoni," "Bembo," and "Baskeryille." The people wield power in the new technology-driven typography, but most people are simultaneously intrigued by novelties and resistant to change...
Unlike Gene, who works for the U.S. Geological Survey, Carolyn is unsalaried. "Nepotism rules say that I cannot be employed by the USGS," she explains, "because I work with Gene." But as an amateur astronomer, she has earned a prestigious fringe benefit; while looking for asteroids, she has discovered 28 comets, more than anyone except Jean-Louis Pons, an early 19th century French astronomer, who may have spotted as many...
TELEVISION PICTURES HAVE KEPT THE AGONY OF Sarajevo before the world's eyes. But in many other parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the war's victims are dying unseen. Amateur radio operators desperately broadcast news from Zepa, a small Muslim enclave in a Serb-controlled region 35 miles east of Sarajevo. Through the static, they reported that in one 24-hour period last week, 85 people, including 51 children, died from cold and hunger...
Score of the Olympic men's basketball finals. The boast that the games showcase amateur athletics was never more hollow than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...