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These needs are even more pressing in the hard sciences, where new professors need lab and research space that Knowles estimates at four to five thousand square feet...
James Nachtwey's photographs of AIDS patients represent more than just a thousand words each. They sometimes have the power to tell the whole story. THEO KINGMA Hollywood...
...under them, taking hits from the sheets of tinfoil. As Jacky applies a thick layer of foundation makeup to her face, and then dabs on retouching cream and then a coating of powder, she talks about how tonight she has to find a customer; she needs to make a thousand baht. She'll work the dance floor at Angel's and, if she can't pick up a foreigner, she'll try Thermae, a sleazy after-hours joint and the evening's last resort for Bangkok's bar girls. If she can find a customer and save some money...
...thousand one? Can't say. Best Year is a retrospective exercise. A good year must have time to marinate in the memory and to establish its place in the comparative scheme of years. We'll know more later...
...about what to expect. But in the past 20 years, scientists on geological digs have found submerged forests along the coastline. Geologists use these discoveries to date past quakes, and because of this new evidence, we now know that there have been major northwestern earthquakes over the past couple thousand years. And that means, of course, that there will probably be another. So it's only lately that we've realized we've got a whopper on our doorstep...