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...fine dolly for videotaping toddlers and tricyclers. Ordinary quartz outdoor lights, perched on two-by-fours, provide good background lighting, while an old slide projector makes an excellent spotlight. Inexpensive security cameras can be used to help shoot scenes requiring two or three angles. For long-shots, a baby monitor makes a perfectly adequate wireless mike...
...billion, or 12.5%, to the industry's jet-fuel costs. Then, in a desperate bid to fill seats as the recession deepened and war jitters sidelined travelers, U.S. airlines slashed fares. By last April, 95% of all U.S. air passengers were traveling on the cheap, according to the Airline Monitor, an industry-research monthly. Despite a heady 30% increase in its passenger traffic from April to June, Phoenix- based America West was forced to seek bankruptcy protection last month...
...week that Pyongyang has tested nuclear detonators. South Africa, widely believed to have the Bomb, announced last week its intention to sign the treaty and will now have to open its facilities to inspection. Countries that do not sign the treaty on occasion agree to have the U.N. group monitor some of their nuclear plants. Israel, India and Pakistan are all in this category, but they nonetheless are believed to have secret weapons programs under...
...million over budget and three years late, and they have developed a mysterious flaw that makes their temperature soundings unexpectedly weak. A race is on to correct the problem, but if the old satellite dies before a new one is launched, the U.S. will lose its ability to monitor broad weather patterns across the country, a situation NWS director Elbert ("Joe") Friday calls "a national emergency...
...greatest threats to human lives may come from overlooked, long dormant volcanoes. To monitor a volcano requires identifying it beforehand; as recently as 1981, Pinatubo was not even included in the worldwide registry of volcanoes maintained by the Smithsonian Institution. "When a nice little hill covered with lush vegetation finally wakes up," observes Smithsonian volcanologist Tom Simkin, "it's going to cause a lot of damage." Fortunately, scientists were able to see that some nice little hills in the Philippines and Japan were turning nasty while people still had time to get away...