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...course, new technology is always disconcerting, at least at first. At Chicago Kenworth, a heavy-truck dealer in suburban Markham, Ill., Accounting Clerk Luanna Domke shudders when she describes the arrival of the company's new Inter-Tel GX smart telephones earlier this month. Says Domke: "The first day, everyone was in a panic. People were saying, 'Oh, my God! What do I do with...
...initially traveling outward at nearly 10,000 miles per second. Since then the color of the supernova has been changing from blue to red much faster than expected. "That change is five to ten times faster than other supernovas," says Robert Williams, director of the U.S.-financed Cerro Tololo Inter-Observatory in Chile. This phenomenon indicates that the rapid expansion of the shell is causing it to cool, thus shifting the wavelength of the emitted light more deeply into the red end of the visible spectrum. Also surprising was 1987A's low luminosity. "If it had lived...
...remarkable interest in low-paying mission work seems to contradict studies indicating that high school and college graduates increasingly opt for high-status, high-paying jobs. But it is no surprise to the Rev. John Kyle of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship in Madison, Wis., which sponsors evangelical groups at 800 secular campuses. Every third year, Kyle's organization sponsors missionary conventions at the University of Illinois, where North American collegians gather to consider overseas work. At the last meeting, in 1984, 4,683 students filed written pledges that they would go overseas, and 10,153 more vowed to pray about...
Three of the people working most closely on solving the Mexican debt crisis are Harvard graduates--President Madrid, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico's minister of budget and planning, and Elliott Abrams '69, United States assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs...
...store displays its variegated edibles on shelves made of inter-connecting red and white plastic pipes that extend from floor to ceiling. Resting on the pipes are 440 bins of candy, dried fruit and nuts, popcorn, granola, cookies and 12 flavors of gelato...