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Civilians can buy similar products from electronics companies. GPS receivers steer boaters around dangerous reefs, track schools of bait for fishermen and help pilots avoid midair collisions. The price of a receiver -- $1,500 to $3,800 -- is steep for Scout troops but falling rapidly...
...help of an on-board atomic clock, each satellite in the network continuously broadcasts a signal indicating the time and the spacecraft's exact position. (A total of 16 satellites are now aloft; there will be 24, including three spares, when the system is completed in 1993.) A GPS receiver uses simultaneous readings from three different satellites to "fix" the user's longitude and latitude...
...than just traditional analysis, is done on a couch. For years psychiatrists have also been regarded as medicine's robber barons. In fact, as medical specialists go, they rank relatively low on the pay scale (average annual income: $47,565), far behind surgeons, $73,245, and only slightly above GPs...
With their eyes on the perpetual poll that goes on at movie box offices, many film companies have quietly changed their line, adopting production schedules including no X movies and damn (or darn) few R ones. "It's just good business sense today to make only Gs and GPs," says Samuel Z. Arkoff, chairman of the board of American International Pictures. His company has deserted the previously profitable motorcycle and horror genres in favor of remakes of Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities and Camille. All three are fit fare for the family trade. Arkoff is not alone...
...Search--Two GPs in Germany find a half-starved child wandering aimlessly. Kindness and Krations suceed in recovering him from a half-animal state. An honest, touching picture, superbly acted...