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...phenomenon. Originally rejected by 13 publishers, the hard-cover book was published in 1994 by Putnam. The book really took off, though, when the paperback came out last March, recently hitting No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, and Pipher's tours on the lecture circuit keep the pot boiling. Explains Linda Grey, president of Ballantine, the paperback's publisher: "Mary is able to convey difficult information in a very reassuring, comfortable and positive...
...York Center," says Henry Brown, a power-systems technician. The FAA has tried to hire contract workers. But, says Acadeno, "a contract technician is not going to come to work in a snowstorm." And those who finally do show up are trained to work with microprocessors, not primitive circuit boards...
That switch has already happened on a smaller scale at Circuit City Stores of Richmond, Virginia, the national appliance and consumer-electronics retailer, which launched its haggle-free CarMax division in 1993 and now successfully operates four superstores in North Carolina and Georgia, as well as Virginia. And soon, H. Wayne Huizenga, founder of the Blockbuster video group, will forge a similar no-dickering used-auto chain, called AutoNation USA, based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida...
Each day, as the Earth turns, the BETA (for Billion-channel Extra-Terrestrial Assay) telescope sweeps a circular swath through the heavens, elevated at a slightly different fixed angle from the horizon with each successive turn. During each circuit it captures radio waves reaching Earth at frequencies between 1400 and 1720 megahertz--a broad but relatively "quiet" region of the radio spectrum. "In the 1960s we were looking in a few niches and hoping the extraterrestrials had put their jewels there," says astronomer Frank Drake, who launched the first SETI project in 1960. "They didn't. Now we are doing...
...under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Backed by the local timber industry, lawyers for Douglas County in southwestern Oregon said Babbitt couldn't cut that corner. They sued the Interior Secretary along with two environmental groups. A federal judge ruled NEPA compliance was indeed required, but the Ninth Circuit court overruled that decision, saying, the Endangered Species Act allowed Babbitt an exemption from NEPA requirements in the spotted owl case. TIME's Adam Cohen notes that, in denying Douglas County's subsequent appeal, the Supreme Court is not necessarily concurring with the Ninth Circuit. "The court can only take...