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...Earth is surrounded by two belts of radiation, which were later named for him; in Iowa City, Iowa. In 1958 Van Allen, below center, with rocket designers William Pickering and Wernher von Braun, posed for one of the iconic photographs of the space age: the three men held a model of Explorer 1 over their heads the night the satellite--the U.S.'s first--went into orbit, four months after Sputnik. In a belated effort to add an element of scientific pursuit to the space race, Van Allen had been asked to design a ride-along experiment to hunt...
Masters does, however, provide a variety of angles to assist them, first allowing Spitzer to define himself—he says his model is Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1876—and then letting others have a try. Former Goldman Sachs chief John C. Whitehead ’68 calls Spitzer “scary,” for example, after allegedly being threatened...
...Stalkers, for which he sold DIY kits as far afield as Poland. As demand grew, so did Rhino Buggies' ambitions. "Clients wanted something they could have fun with in the bush but also drive to the office," says Watson, sitting in an office littered with toy plastic rhinos and model LandRovers and Jeeps. So he and his mates came up with the (road approved) Hammer, a Hummer replica on a Nissan chassis. Then, one day, they sat down with paper, pen and ruler and conceived the Blizzard. Which in turn begat their pi?ce de r?sistance (and Watson's own ride...
...some robotic cop depriving people of their liberty." Three other officers are also involved in the club, whose player base is as diverse as the town's-teenagers, teachers, tradesmen, and bureaucrats. Shane Pickett, 19, is one of the club's bright talents and a good role model for younger kids...
...Yiyili, excised from Louisa Downs Station, is considered to be a model remote community. Assorted ministers and politicians from all over the nation have come here to see good news in the making-and, if you look on the walls of the administrative offices, to be photographed. Plans are afoot to capture more of the tourist dollar, through art and guided tours of Gooniyandi country. "The demise of trad-itional communities is due to structures, such as the [defunct] Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Comm-ission, that have been imposed from afar by governments," says school principal Len Boyle...