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...doesn't matter. Professors aren't one-dimensional academics who only care about the subjects they teach and the research they do. Professors are people, too. They go to see movies and plays. They drive convertibles and pick their mothers up at the airport. They eat goldfish and drink Corona with lime. Not only that, but they are interested in their students and their students lives. Sure, you'll have to make the effort to talk to them if you are interested in getting to know them. But if you make the first step, they'll take the second...
BORN: June 8, 1953, Corona EDUCATION: Chaffey College, A.A., 1973; San Diego State U, B.A., 1975 FAMILY: Divorced RELIGION: Protestant MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Real estate executive POLITICAL CAREER: Sought Republican nomination for U.S. House, 1982; U.S. House 1992- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1414, Riverside...
Calvert's a sturdy candidate in a new but already Republican-leaning district. In 1993 he became tabloid fodder when the Corona police caught him in his car with a convicted prostitute. Even then, he beat his Democratic opponent handily. This year he is eager to win an election based on issues alone...
What drives space weather is the solar wind, a never-ending gush of magnetized gas spewed out by the corona, the sun's glowing outer shell. This gas is so hot (two million degrees Fahrenheit) that atoms of hydrogen and helium are homogenized into a dilute plasma, composed mainly of negatively charged electrons and positively charged protons. Yet the solar wind is a gossamer thing, far less substantial than a whisper. "What you have," marvels Gurman, "is a million tons of matter moving at a million miles per hour. But its density is so low that essentially you're dealing...
Auto-By-Tel, which is based in Corona del Mar, California, works through 1,300 dealers, who pay as much as $1,500 a month to join the network and agree in advance to charge a low fixed amount over a vehicle's invoice price. That shaves profit margins but reduces the commissions that dealers pay salespeople and cuts down on advertising costs. Observes Auto-By-Tel founder Peter Ellis, who styles himself a reformed hard seller: "We simply say to our dealers, 'Take that money you're saving and take it off the price of your cars.'" AutoVantage, which...