Word: amateurness
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...Victor uniform two mike Kilo Papa," Robert Kohli barks into a microphone, his voice spinning off into the ether via an amateur radio satellite 4,500 km up in the sky. He pauses to listen for incoming signals. He hears a crackle, then the voice of Charlie from Hong Kong: "You are strong as ever today...
Rick Hanetho, a parks manager in Schomberg, Ill., started the National Amateur Dodgeball Association after noticing that local kids, given a choice, always picked the game. He says dodge ball is most loved by the geekier kids, who could never make the basketball team or cheerleader squad but still crave team sports. "It teaches incredible hand-eye coordination, quick decision making, concentration and agility," he says. "And it's just a game. This criticism is absurd, just crazy...
...last year, a number that is expected to nearly double in 2001 and outpace the stagnant, traditional camera market within a few years. Consumer appetite for film in the U.S. has almost peaked, at slightly more than 1 billion rolls a year. Indeed, much to the dismay of some amateur enthusiasts (including, perhaps, Paul Simon), Kodak is quietly phasing out much of its trademark Kodachrome line of film...
...sent to the Norwich School in Norfolk, England. "There were racial problems, discrimination," he says. "But I made friends there. And on weekends I'd go see my relatives in Southend-on-Sea, where they ran a restaurant. I was a bartender, and I'd do amateur singing." By this time he had chosen his English name. "I love the film Gone with the Wind. And I like Leslie Howard. The name can be a man's or woman's, it's very unisex, so I like...
Your report on Jerusalem helped me put many disjointed tidbits of information I had mentally gathered over the years into a concise portrayal of events during a 2,500-year period. Congratulations! As an amateur London tour guide, however, I believe historical-geography professor Joshua Schwartz meant to compare ancient Jerusalem's Temple steps not to London's Hyde Park Corner but to the famous Speakers' Corner, where "scholars would be teaching and would-be prophets would be preaching." MICHAEL EGAN Riverside, Conn...