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...wrong. Job interviews are not pleasant. But neither is Frank's Oriental Fish, and nobody buys books about that...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: No-Nos of Job Interviews | 2/10/1990 | See Source »

...year, for example, Japan has allocated some $1.07 billion for space, about 10% of the U.S. figure. And launches are limited to only 90 days a year, half in winter and half in summer, because tuna fishermen near the space center claim that rockets are dangerous and scare away fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Japan Goes to the Moon | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...Well, first, he's named for the right state. Joe North Dakota, he'd probably be a bus driver. Then he's got those gunfighter's eyes. Deadly in publicity stills. Blam, blam, you're haddock pate." The observer wanted to ask this fine fish why this year everyone, even the players, seemed more bored with football than is usual at Super Bowl time. But the last of the snapper was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super Bowl Field of Dreams | 2/5/1990 | See Source »

...record of 21 ft. 5 3/4 in. (set in three hops in 1986 by Rosie the Ribbiter, a 1-lb. bullfrog), Koffman entered three of them in this May's 62nd annual Jumping Frog Jubilee at Angels Camp, Calif., site of Twain's tale. Though the California department of fish and game temporarily barred the superfrogs from the state as "undesirable," Koffman will try to convince the bureaucrats that the Goliaths pose no danger -- except perhaps to the pip-squeak American competitors in the Calaveras jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amphibians: Out of Africa - Superfrogs! | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...scientists have carried out dozens of unique experiments. In the McMurdo Sound area a group of geologists camped out in the bitter cold of the Royal Society mountains, looking for evidence of the ebbing and flowing of glaciers in Antarctica's past, and biologists drew 50-kg (110-lb.) fish from ice holes to study the unique organic antifreeze that keeps these sea dwellers alive. Volcanologists braved the knifelike winds and choking fumes atop Mount Erebus to learn what kinds of gases and particles Antarctica's largest volcano emits. At Williams Field, a runway on the Ross Ice Shelf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Antarctica | 1/15/1990 | See Source »

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