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...performance artists but astronomers--albeit amateur ones. Recruited largely via the Internet, they were helping the astronomical pros study the occultation--or eclipse--of Aldebaran, an observation that could lead to a more precise estimate of the moon's diameter. That figure in turn could serve as a cosmic yardstick by which to measure other heavenly bodies...
...yardstick we use to measure the site's rate of use is the number of visitors at each local site," Collet said. "We've been matching the kind of traffic the local papers get [at the other five sites] and as of now [Yahoo is] basically the most popular site next to Netscape...
Resolutely positive, Mrs. Dole says the FDA sought the consent decree merely as a yardstick to measure improvement. She was so prepared for this conversation with TIME that she read aloud remarks by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and FDA commissioner David Kessler praising her management. The consent decree, she says, "literally was a ratification, it was a ratification of what we were doing...
Surprisingly, this sort of penurious ingenuity yields only a slight edge over the majors, who have been frantically cutting costs as well. Using a basic industry yardstick--operating expense per seat, per mile flown--analyst Engel figures that last year American, Delta and United averaged 8.76[cents] a mile; the upstarts averaged 7.64[cents...
Earlier last week, three British soldiers met their deaths when they drove over an antitank mine. But this was the first American killed while serving in Bosnia. While that may not carry with it any special index of tragedy, it does score a notch on the emotional yardstick by which Americans gauge whether their government's latest foreign policy venture is worth its perils...