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...that feeling in the middle of winter, inside, protected from the biting cold and warmed by the lamp overhead and the writing of some great author. Then reading is not a chore...
Casually attired in khaki trousers and a gray polo shirt, math teacher Tony Dula scribbles an algebra problem on a sheet of clear plastic and, using an overhead projector, throws the image on the blackboard for his class of 10th- graders. "O.K.," he says, "you have two minutes." Heads bow and sneakered feet tap softly on the floor. Suddenly a student in the second row breaks the silence. "Oooooh! I found it!," she cries. "I feel good!" Another girl waves her hand wildly from the back of the room. "Mr. Dula! Mr. Dula...
Those days are long gone. In Washington NASA is under siege, its reputation tarnished, its programs in disarray, its future clouded. Overhead, the crippled $2.1 billion Hubble Space Telescope orbits, its vision blurred by an embarrassing, inexcusable flaw in one of its reflecting mirrors. In Congress legislators are having second thoughts about any further funding of the highly touted $37 billion space station, questioning its usefulness and NASA's ability to assemble and operate...
Geography also plays a role in skin cancer. Equatorial regions, where the midday sun beams down from directly overhead, receive the most intense ultraviolet radiation. Farther north or south, solar rays strike the earth at a more oblique angle, taking a longer passage through the atmosphere, where the ozone layer absorbs more of the ultraviolet light before it can reach the surface...
...make our workplace so much more fun, and we can get rid of so much overhead. We have as much bureaucracy in some of our businesses as we have in Washington, because by de-emphasizing the quality of workers, we have to increase the number of supervisors. What a waste...