Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Without savings to go home, the workers are stuck living in conditions reminiscent of The Grapes of Wrath. Douglas Davis, a 35-year-old carpenter from Pennsylvania, is living in his aging Scout van at Camp Mad Max because he can't afford a hotel. Thieves have taken his car battery, his radio, his tools, even his Penn State floor mats. His body is covered with infected mosquito bites. On his back, an antibiotic cream covers a patch of ringworm. ; Asked if he has seen a doctor, he says he cured himself by "sanding" down the skin and washing...
...telescope network and $10 million to $15 million annually to operate it. Adding research on defense technologies and possible space-based sensors would run the annual costs to "a few tens of millions." And "a few hundred million dollars could develop and test the robotic spacecraft missions" needed to scout any threatening object. An effective way of reducing later costs, says Eugene Shoemaker of the U.S. Geological Survey, would be to put aside a handful of the missiles now being dismantled by the U.S. and Russia and modify them for the intercept program. "It's not huge bucks," he says...
...Tays, Chinese immigrants from Singapore, used the profits from Dr. Alfred Tay's medical practice to custom-build their 8,000-sq.-ft. home in an exclusive section of the city of Orange and to provide costly luxuries for their son and daughter. Stuart was a former Boy Scout, an academic standout at Foothill High School, and a founder of an Asian-culture club who hoped to attend a top-ranked college next fall. Some of his friends add subtle shadings to the glowing picture, mentioning the "techno-punk" clothes he had begun wearing as a senior and his frequent...
...didn't join the Marine Corps to be a Boy Scout...
...refused," says Wilson. "He basically created that crisis and trampled on me to get what he wanted. And I found that totally immoral and unacceptable." As Aubrey Wilson and his colleagues at IBM have apparently learned, it's hard to be a billionaire and a Boy Scout at the same time...