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...interim findings. Sure enough, the hole appeared in mid-September, right on schedule, and bloomed over the next 20 to 30 days, until the ozone content of the hole had dropped by about 40%. Says Team Leader Susan Solomon, a chemist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colo.: "We suspect a chemical process is fundamentally responsible," although atmospheric dynamics undoubtedly help shape it. The chemicals could be natural -- volcanic, perhaps -- but CFCs might play a role...
...hard to imagine that an individual could consume a whole one at a sitting. Nonetheless, people do just that, either at the tiny counter of the shop in the mall or back at home after reviving the stiffening rolls in the microwave. Says Deborah Taussig, a retailer from Boulder: "I always hope that I am with a friend, because if I'm not able to split one, I'll never be able to resist eating the whole thing myself...
...banker is turning up on college campuses. Barely old enough to take out loans, much less authorize them, undergraduate financiers have established federally insured credit unions at twelve schools, from Berkeley to Babson College in Wellesley, Mass. Estimated combined assets so far: $10 million. The University of Colorado at Boulder will open one in June...
...coffee fields, but his mind was on the stars, which he liked to examine through a telescope at Honolulu's Bishop Museum. The oldest of four children, Onizuka was a star athlete, an honor student and an Eagle Scout. He studied aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees. He then spent eight years as a test pilot and flight engineer with the Air Force. Onizuka taught courses at the elite Air Force test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base in California before joining NASA as an astronaut candidate...
...campers, the romance remained intact. Allen Garber, a 31-year- old paramedic from Boulder, went through the weekend with a look of bruised wonder in his eyes. "When I was a kid," he said, "I thought I could become an astronaut." Then he added sadly, "As I got older, I became more realistic...