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...many says can you divide the square grid below into four parts of exactly the same shape and size by drawing lines from dot to dot...
Sputnik I, a tiny dot of light moving across the autumn sky, did what nothing else had done for nearly 20 years: it scared Washington. The people who knew the implications, like Astronomer John Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, America's own unborn space probe, stayed up all night linking a hasty network of aerials to catch the faint beeps of the intruder that mocked the presumed U.S. technological superiority. Power and politics were never again the same in the capital. Sputnik signaled a new superpower on the prowl. Space, for the moment, was the area of contention...
Wells now pump oil right out from underneath Main Street, and dozens more dot the surrounding buttes. Cranes lay down sections of pipe across snow and sagebrush that will carry gas from well to processing plants. Helicopters whir overhead. Hundreds of workers live in trailers and tents in fields, along the river banks, or wherever a friendly rancher will let them camp...
...year, the stickwomen played their best against the best but managed to come up just short each time. Against the local opponents that dot the non-league slate they racked up impressive statistics (like outshooting B.C., 28-2) but couldn't play consistently. And when matched against the middling squads that round out the schedule, the team played average, up-and-down games--with like results...
...percent of those crossing Delaware Memorial are commuters. Some are bound for the plants that dot both sides of the river. Some are Jersey shoppers bound for Delaware, where these is no sales tax. Some faces, like those of the truckers who regularly haul furniture up the coast from the Carolinas or run Eastern Shore chickens to New York, tend to become familiar to the toll collectors. Supervisor Ronald Cantino, 34, kept seeing a Jersey girl who commuted to school near Wilmington. First he asked for her phone number, then for a date. Finally he married her. Now they have...