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...franchising, which was an estimated 4.7 million in 1980, will top 7 million this year, or 6.3% of the U.S. work force. The trend is fueled by legions of workers who see myriad opportunities to start their own business and be their own boss. Says Robert Kushell, a Glen Cove, N.Y., franchising consultant: "The accountant who doesn't want to work with numbers all day, the businessman who's tired of traveling three weeks out of the month, the woman who has stayed home and raised a family and now wants a career -- all these people can find that franchising...
MAGAZINE:Jennifer L. Mnookin '88 of Adams House are Palo Alto, California, Magazine Editor. Maia E. Harris '88 Adams House and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Magazine Editor Jefferson S. Chase '88 of Adams House and Crabapple Cove Maine, Associate Magazine Editor...
...first person to report that something was amiss was Guide Mike Branham, 40, a strapping six-footer who each spring flies a pontoon plane full of bear hunters into a cove on Russell Fjord, in Alaska's southeastern panhandle. This year he discovered that things had changed: Hubbard Glacier was on the move -- at a most unglacial pace of about 40 ft. per day. "We saw the glacier advance like it never had before," says Branham. That was in April. Within weeks, the leading edge of ice had sealed off the fjord at its opening, turning the 32-mile-long...
...Northwest has also become a smuggler's cove. In January the Coast Guard tracked the 195-ft. Honduran freighter Eagle One as it tried to sneak up the California coast toward Seattle. Just outside Puget Sound, drug agents boarded the ship and took it into dock, where they seized 447 lbs. of cocaine in a welded-shut compartment. Says Robert Dreisbach, spokesman for the Seattle office of the DEA: "The smugglers are moving away from the heavily patrolled ports, and we are particularly vulnerable because of our less dense population along an immense amount of coastline...
...Linn Cove Viaduct, a segment of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, built by the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration. The jury calls it "an elegant curving ribbon that caresses the terrain without using it as a support. It gives the motorist the sensation of driving tantalizingly on air while the earth goes...