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Although the system was designed to take some of the pressure off harried FAA controllers, they themselves have found that alpha numerics poses a few problems of its own. To feed information about a flight into the radarscope and attach that information to the appropriate blip, for example, the controller must turn away from the screen to punch buttons on a computer input box, leaving his flights unattended for several vital seconds. In addition, as the alphanumeric data blocks move with their appropriate blips across the screen, they occasionally merge with data blocks from other flights, making both sets...
...from eleven to 13, led by captains and lieutenants of 16 or so, pitch camp for two weeks on the Isle of Wight. They leave half their supplies behind on the boat, neglect to put the kettle on for tea; on the second morning, all that is left to feed the whole Brownie troop is eight slices of toast. In the brief pauses between muddled meals, the Guides manage to lose each other, usually during a hilarious drill called "stalking," in which they are all over the heath like big-rumped, slightly spastic tiger kittens. Author Glyn is a connoisseur...
...establish itself as a body with no specific objectives, or should it immediately attack a single question to rally support? The first course appealed to those who feared a disasterously narrow appeal from the single-issue approach. They preferred to set up the organization first, and then let issues feed into it as they arose. But the departmental reports had also indicated that most of the teaching fellows, even in the more apathetic departments, were interested specifically in wages and work load. Kenneth A. Waltzer, one of the proponents of the single-issue approach, explained later, "There...
Johnson's list of the country's neglect of its youth was exhaustive. Some 14.5 million young under 17 live in families too poor to feed and house them adequately. One million will drop out of school this year, most to join the ranks of the unemployed. More than 3.5 million poor children who need medical help do not receive it and nearly two-thirds of all poor children have never visited a dentist...
...size of California, has only 450 miles of paved roads, and in Venezuela, which is three times larger than Italy, the state railroad moves on a total of 220 miles of track. The armchair traveler learns that dueling is still legal in Uruguay, that Bolivian jails do not feed the prisoners (who must depend on handouts from friends or relatives), and that Recife, a Brazilian coast city of 1,000,000 population, has 40,000 registered prostitutes. Colombia boasts more than 700 varieties of orchids. Venezuela, on the other hand, has 32 kinds of eagles. In the Argentine, parents boost...