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...latest motor and fuel adjustments. The real hot rodders meet on weekends at the hard-packed sandy stretches in the dry lake beds of El Mirage, 106 miles northeast of Los Angeles. There, under careful racing conditions, hot-rod clubs known as the "Dragons," the "Cranks" or the "Gents" skim over the sand at speeds of 100 to 180 m.p.h...
...habits of mosquitoes, though closely studied, are still a dark mystery. The males of a few species take their mates where they find them, just like less subtle insects. Among the Opifex fuscus of New Zealand, the males like their females young. They skim along the surface of stagnant water, watching downward intently and sometimes thrusting their heads below the surface. They are looking for female pupae about to become adult. When a pupa breaks the surface, the male tears open the pupa case and mates with the still-soft imago before it has fully emerged...
Lastly, there is a period devoted to teaching students how to read the essentials, how to skim, and how to take rapid notes...
Over the whole program hangs the shadow of military security. Can Pitzer protect his men from the threat of attack (without hearing or recourse) on charges of disloyalty?* Unless he can reassure his colleagues on such points, AEC may have to get along with the skim milk of U.S. scientific talent...
...Military salaries take 26% of Chile's budget, but generals and colonels skim the cream. A private's pay is $145 a year. A lieutenant gets $480, and if he wants his commander's permission to marry must prove that his fiancee has her own income...