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...Infra-Structure. Like legitimate business, the underworld has its basic, or "core," industries. "In economic-development terms," says Schelling, "black markets may provide the central core (or 'infra-structure') of underworld business, capable of branching out into other lines." The underworld economy probably grew out of the Prohibition-era bootleg liquor industry, which "may have put underworld business in the U.S. in what economic developers call the 'takeoff' into self-sustained growth...
...this is an important question for research--that without these important black markets crime would be substantially decentralized, lacking the kind of organization that makes it enterprising, safe, and able to corrupt public officials. In economic-development terms, these black markets may provide the central core (or "infra-structure") of underworld business, capable of branching out into other lines...
...that stars must be forming in the universe around us," he says. And wherever they were, those new stars should have been extremely bright. But strangely, none could be found. Then Low learned from a visiting astronomer that R Mon seemed to be emitting an abnormally large amount of infra-red radiation. He decided to check on the star with his germanium bolometer, an extremely sensitive infra-red measuring device of his own design (TIME...
Mathematical Model. After connecting the bolometer to the 5-ft. infra-red telescope at the University of Arizona's Catalina observatory near Tucson, Low made careful measurements of R Mon's total energy output over a wide range of wave lengths. He found that the energy produced was much greater than earlier observations had indicated (about 870 times that of the sun), and the star was radiating with inexplicable intensity at the longest wave lengths. On the theory that something was obscuring the visible light, Low asked Smith to help work out a mathematical model of a bright...
...Infra-red detection of underground fresh water will soon be possible anywhere in the world. Fischer is currently working on infra-red instruments for the Geological Survey's EROS (Earth Resources Observation Satellites) program, hopes to have it aboard a satellite by 1969. Once in operation, it might serve to find water under deserts, chart the best locations for wells and discover new hot springs for resort sites. It could even help the U.S. Internal Revenue Service by searching the Southern hill country for the hidden cold springs that are needed for the operation of illegal stills...