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...assigned to a big-city office, his hours are apt to be as regular as a stockbroker's. But assignment to a small city can mean excessive travel, irregular hours and unplanned schedule changes. The ideal assignment is in a middle-sized city like Madison, Wis., or Boulder, Colo., where as agents say, "You can pretty much be your own boss...
...world map the Territory of the Afars and Issas resembles a wart on the Horn of Africa. In reality, it is not much more attractive. Most of its 9,000 square miles (roughly the size of New Hampshire) is desert, a desolate mixture of searing sand, thorny scrub and boulder-strewn hills. Its estimated population of 200,000 is split between two unharmonious tribes, the nomadic Afars and the more industrious Issas, and about 90% of the inhabitants are illiterate. Djibouti, the territory's capital and only city of any size, has some of Africa's worst slums...
...walker Jack Schmitt, the U.S. flag and the distant earth into one small frame, Cernan had to drop to his knees in his stiff space suit and thrust himself backward so that the chest-mounted camera could be properly aimed. To obtain a view of Schmitt and a giant boulder, Cernan insisted on scrambling up an incline. He also aimed and re-aimed until he was finally able to squeeze into one frame the lunar rover, Schmitt and the startling orange soil that Schmitt had discovered at Shorty Crater. Geologist Schmitt also proved an adept lensman, but as might...
...scientists working under Dr. Kenneth M. Evenson at the National Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colo., have measured c with new accuracy. Working with a laser beam-pure light of a single frequency-they have refined the measurement of light's speed to 186,282.3960 miles per second. In effect they reduced the accepted speed by roughly 144 feet per second. This may not seem important to camera fans worrying about exposure, or yachtsmen timing a flashing light on a dark night. But it could make a considerable difference to scientists calculating the precise landing site of an astronaut...
Youthful adrenalin-and perhaps the sloppy drizzle in South Bend, Ind., or the mile-high altitude in Boulder, Colo.-might "account for some of the unexpected scores on the college circuit. But what of the pros, those supposedly steady, seasoned old veterans? In the National Hockey League, for instance, the venerable Montreal Canadiens are battling for the Eastern Division lead with the likes of the Detroit Red Wings (who have not won the Stanley Cup in 18 years) and a gang of young upstarts called the Buffalo Sabres. The Boston Bruins? Last year's Stanley Cup winners, weakened...