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concentrated over there, in an increasingly thick and crammed vortex, as when a magnet hidden under a sheet of paper attracts iron filings, making patterns that become darker one moment, lighter the next, and in the end dissolve and leave on the white page a speckling of scattered fragments...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: Looking for Mr. Palomar | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...July 1, 1811, is an inventory of his credits and debits, including the $304 he owes the federal land office for the purchase of 160 acres of farmland. If he knew he were writing a story, Keene might decide to begin it with something more exciting than a ledger sheet. But he has no idea, of course, what shape his book will take. He is innocent of the events that await...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Search of Immortality the Tree of Life | 10/21/1985 | See Source »

...barrier around the site. In August the EPA finished a new chain link fence, topped with three strands of barbed wire and hung with warning signs. (Some days, however, its gate has stood wide open.) The source of all the trouble is a ratty compound of cinder blocks and sheet metal, pink clapboard and silver tanks. One large white building is marked only by a tiny skull-and-crossbones label on the door. A few yards outside the site one afternoon in September, four men and a woman in boots and rubbery white suits used a huge tread-mounted pump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Living, Dangerously, with Toxic Wastes | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

Each company fills out a fact sheet about positions or training programs, location of employment, and required concentrations. Those are kept in a binder in the recruiting room. It may seem obvious, but you should have a basic knowledge of what your job involves. If you're interviewing with an investment banking firm, know what an investment analyst does and how she contributes to the company. You should also know such basic information about a company as: what its products are, where its offices are located, what subsidiaries it has, what its growth has been, and how it views...

Author: By John Noble, | Title: Prepare, prepare, prepare for that interview | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

Your questions: The interviewer will usually leave about 10 minutes at the end for your questions. Have a few in mind before the interview. Don't ask questions that are answered in the recruiting material or the fact sheet. But you may want to investigate some aspects of the position or training program in greater depth. If you have done extensive research on the company, you may have an issue to discuss. Your questions should reflect an understanding and concern for the industry and company for which you hope to work...

Author: By John Noble, | Title: Prepare, prepare, prepare for that interview | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

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