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...local television contest, the latter calculated the number of snowflakes that fell on Boston during February's monster storm. He multiplied the average snowfall depth (27 in.) by the area of Boston (43 sq. mi.), then divided the result by the volume of the average snowflake (1/10,000 cu. in.). Answer: 50 quadrillion (5 X 10 16) snowflakes. His prize: a Tessman family portrait-in snow...
...Cove Point plant is only one leg of an immense project known as El Paso I. The other leg is a terminal now under construction at Elba Island, near Savannah, Ga., that this summer will begin taking in 350 million cu. ft. of liquefied Algerian gas daily. The two terminals together will receive 1 billion cu. ft. a day, a rate sufficient to heat the homes of 9 million Americans...
Patterson was the oldest child of a wealthy Denver executive, and a graduate of a private school south of Denver. Two years older than Jim, he was a sophomore pre-med at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) when he won the Telluride contest. Bob was a tremendous skier, and well-known in Boulder as an excellent hang-glider pilot. He was bright, and although he did not aspire to academic success, he respected it and sometimes achieved...
...ambulance attendant; he's also worked as a keypuncher, and for a while he sold peanuts and eggs wholesale. Barry Buckman is a construction worker and his sister Linda is a Bible freak at Colorado College. Paul Muffly and Lindy Moon are both pre-meds at CU; Lisa Norling and Bill Heiss are also at CU, where she is studying physical therapy and he is studying partying. Gale Lehman is a circus clown, Jim believes. Charlie Thompson, who was a professional ski patrolman at the time the Telluride picture was taken, is still a professional ski patrolman. On July...
...hear an appeal of a lower-court decision, signaled a go-ahead to exploit acreage near the Baltimore Canyon, which lies 50 to 90 miles off Atlantic City, N.J. The most optimistic geologists estimate that this tract contains up to 1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. That would be equal to all the oil and gas now drilled in the U.S. in six months...