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...investment was hotter in 1980 than the so-called penny stocks-speculative shares in new companies priced at $1 or less and traded primarily over the counter in places such as Denver or Salt Lake City. Suddenly, though, the pennies have tarnished. High-interest rates now make other investments more attractive, and many investors have grown suspicious about the low-priced stocks...
Thanks to John Baudouine, of Bullhead City, Ariz. (pop. 15,000), his town is now officially hotter than ever before. Baudouine, a fireman, is no sorcerer: for four years he has been in charge of reporting daily weather statistics to the National Weather Service for his stretch of western Arizona desert. Last April a stickler from the Weather Service told him to move his thermometer from the firehouse's comparatively cool, sprinklered front lawn to more "natural terrain." Baudouine picked a dusty patch 100 yards away, and the high temperatures in Bullhead City were promptly four or five degrees...
...Reagan opted for action. His proposal to reduce Social Security payments produced shock waves-congressional phones and mailbags exploded with protests-but the President may have sown the seeds of future success. Indeed, the wise strategy may be to push even harder. "The iron is never going to be hotter," says one of Reagan's top aides. Their polls show him with a 76% approval rating...
...March 1979, was delayed in part for replacement of thousands of heat-resistant tiles, which are attached to its aluminum shell to keep the shuttle from burning up on reentry. It has also been plagued by trouble in its complex engines, which burn fuel at 6,000° C, hotter than the boiling point of most metals. The engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore the Apollo astronauts aloft. Unlike...