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...spinifex, scraggy trees and termite mounds. Apart from local Aborigines and the odd ranger, Archer's teams are the only people who set foot on this land. So how do they know their way around? Here, rogainer Creaser more than earns his keep. "This guy," says Frank Nissen, a surveyor with Queensland Parks and Wildlife, "has the best spatial brain of anyone I've ever met. More than 250 sites and he can lead you to every one of them." Digging will be confined this year to Riversleigh's fringes, for money's tight and the team lacks a helicopter...
Like the other revolutionaries, Jefferson was eager to prove himself by the latest, most enlightened values. His father Peter Jefferson was a wealthy Virginia planter and surveyor. But his father was not a refined and liberally educated gentleman. He did not read Latin, he did not know French, he did not play the violin, and as far as we know, he never once questioned the idea of a religious establishment or the owning of slaves. Jefferson aimed to be very different from his father. No founder worked harder at being civilized. Even by 1782, as an admiring French visitor observed...
...take a real commitment. Remember the national aerospace plane? No? Neither does anyone else, but this was one of the start-and-stop projects on which NASA lavished dead-end research dollars in the 1980s. "From 1961 to 1973," says Zubrin, "we had Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Ranger, Mariner, Surveyor, and we developed almost all the space technology we have today. What did we accomplish in the '90s? We flew half-a-dozen robotic probes and 60 shuttle missions...
...autographs and subjected themselves yet again to the attentions of the press, as local and national outlets squabbled for sound bites. ("That was worse than being trapped in the mine," Hall joked afterward.) They have maintained a common restraint following the suicide last month of Bob Long, an expert surveyor who aided the rescue and received his own deal from Disney after being touted on TV as "the man behind the miracle." Long's uneasy relationship with the miners--he called them "bastards" once--may have had something to do with his despair, although the parties are said to have...
...corporate pension schemes, many of which currently face huge deficits. A few simple rules can help you navigate Europe's new reality. Develop steady habits Even as he watched the FTSE index plummet from its all-time high at the end of 1999, Barry Lake, 48, kept investing. The surveyor from Rayleigh, England, first dipped into the stock market in 1994 by joining an investment club. Over the last two years Lake has shoveled about €2,830 - or around j118 monthly - into equities. Yes, the holdings - including those of his clubs - are worth far less than their peak...