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...lively discussion driven in a large part by seniors who wanted to learn this stuff before leaving," he says...
...rising through the ranks to take command of the entire Pacific Fleet, with 85 million sq. mi. as his domain. Young John was not at his father's change-of-command ceremony, but he writes that "I have always believed that for that one moment, my father, so hard driven by his oppressive desire to honor his father's name, looked on his career with tranquillity and satisfaction." He had, in official standing at least, surpassed...
...upper half of the sphere. The stars inside actually twinkle, thanks to the Hayden's one-of-a-kind Zeiss Mark IX projector. It even projects stars you can't see, unless you bring binoculars into the dome, and shows constellations with 3-D reality. A second projection system, driven by a Silicon Graphics supercomputer loaded with real astronomical data, lets visitors "fly" beyond the Milky Way. As they look back on their gradually diminishing home, it becomes just one more speck amid a lacy network of galaxies in the immense void...
This year, according to the AAA, some 6,000 teens will be killed in crashes of cars driven by teens; an additional 600,000 teens will be injured. Drunk driving contributes to fewer teen accidents these days, thanks to zero-tolerance laws and higher alcohol-purchase ages. By addressing the far more common culprit of driver error, graduated-licensing programs should further reduce the teen-driving toll...
Parked on a grassy bank in her 15-year-old, blue-green Land Rover, elephant researcher Cynthia Moss peers through her binoculars at a group of females and calves 200 ft. in front of us. It is late afternoon, and Moss and I have driven from her camp in Kenya's Amboseli National Park to the eastern edge of nearby Longinye swamp. Our job: to count and identify the elephants as observers in an airplane estimate numbers from above. Behind us, across the border in Tanzania, looms the hulking mass of Africa's highest peak, Mount Kilimanjaro, its snow-capped...