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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Sep 23 19:29:56 1992
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 92 19:29:38 -0400
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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jefft (Jeff Tang):
"Well--tie a yellow coward round that old oak tree!"
--- Crow, "Gamera vs. Gaos"
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Office: 608-3 Evans, x2-1863
Home phone: +1 (510) 525-7984
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(almost certainly) Visiting Boston the week of 12--16 October 1992.
More details to come.
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madmax (Kimball D Thurston):
There is no plan.
all one can hope for is to
achieve one thing at a time.
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marc (Marc Horowitz):
JOHNSTON ATOLL
(territory of the US)
GEOGRAPHY
Total area: 2.8 km2; land area: 2.8 km2
Comparative area: about 4.7 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC
Land boundaries: none
Coastline: 10 km
Maritime claims:
Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
Continental shelf: 200 m (depth);
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate: tropical, but generally dry; consistent northeast trade
winds with little seasonal temperature variation
Terrain: mostly flat with a maximum elevation of 4 meters
Natural resources: guano (deposits worked until about 1890)
Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%
Environment: some low-growing vegetation
Note: strategic location 1,328 km west-southwest of Honolulu in
the North Pacific Ocean, about one-third of the way between Hawaii and
the Marshall Islands; Johnston Island and Sand Island are natural
islands; North Island (Akau) and East Island (Hikina) are manmade islands
formed from coral dredging; closed to the public; former nuclear weapons
test site; site of Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System
(JACADS)
PEOPLE
Population: 1,325 (December 1990); all US government personnel and
contractors
GOVERNMENT
Long-form name: none (territory of the US)
Type: unincorporated territory of the US administered by the US
Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) and managed cooperatively by DNA and the
Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of
the National Wildlife Refuge system
Diplomatic representation: none (territory of the US)
Flag: the flag of the US is used
ECONOMY
Overview: Economic activity is limited to providing services to
US military personnel and contractors located on the island. All
food and manufactured goods must be imported.
Electricity: supplied by the United States Military
COMMUNICATIONS
Ports: Johnston Island
Airports: 1 with permanent-surface runway 2,743 m
Telecommunications: excellent system including 60-channel submarine
cable, Autodin/SRT terminal, digital telephone switch, Military
Affiliated Radio System (MARS station), commercial satellite television
system (receive only), and UHF/VHF air-ground radio, marine
VHF/FM Channel 16
Note: US Coast Guard operates a LORAN transmitting station
DEFENSE FORCES
Note: defense is the responsibility of the US
* JORDAN
* JOHNSTON ATOLL
JOHNSTON ATOLL
(territory of the US)
GEOGRAPHY
Total area: 2.8 km2; land area: 2.8 km2
Comparative area: about 4.7 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC
Land boundaries: none
Coastline: 10 km
Maritime claims:
Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
Continental shelf: 200 m (depth);
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate: tropical, but generally dry; consistent northeast trade
winds with little seasonal temperature variation
Terrain: mostly flat with a maximum elevation of 4 meters
Natural resources: guano (deposits worked until about 1890)
Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%
Environment: some low-growing vegetation
Note: strategic location 1,328 km west-southwest of Honolulu in
the North Pacific Ocean, about one-third of the way between Hawaii and
the Marshall Islands; Johnston Island and Sand Island are natural
islands; North Island (Akau) and East Island (Hikina) are manmade islands
formed from coral dredging; closed to the public; former nuclear weapons
test site; site of Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System
(JACADS)
PEOPLE
Population: 1,325 (December 1990); all US government personnel and
contractors
GOVERNMENT
Long-form name: none (territory of the US)
Type: unincorporated territory of the US administered by the US
Defense Nuclear Agency (DNA) and managed cooperatively by DNA and the
Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of
the National Wildlife Refuge system
Diplomatic representation: none (territory of the US)
Flag: the flag of the US is used
ECONOMY
Overview: Economic activity is limited to providing services to
US military personnel and contractors located on the island. All
food and manufactured goods must be imported.
Electricity: supplied by the United States Military
COMMUNICATIONS
Ports: Johnston Island
Airports: 1 with permanent-surface runway 2,743 m
Telecommunications: excellent system including 60-channel submarine
cable, Autodin/SRT terminal, digital telephone switch, Military
Affiliated Radio System (MARS station), commercial satellite television
system (receive only), and UHF/VHF air-ground radio, marine
VHF/FM Channel 16
Note: US Coast Guard operates a LORAN transmitting station
DEFENSE FORCES
Note: defense is the responsibility of the US
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nightowl (Blodeuwedd):
"Careful the wish you make, wishes are children
Careful the path they take, wishes come true, not free
Careful the spell you cast, not just on children
Sometimes the spell may last past what you can see
And turn against you
Careful the tale you tell, that is the spell"
--Finale Act II, "Into the Woods"
other account: grove@mitlns (logged in almost all day weekdays)
"When you know you can't have what you want,
Where's the profit in wishing?"
--The Baker's Wife, "A Very Nice Prince"
from Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods"
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rlcarr (Richard L. Carreiro):
Originally From: MGLASS@fnalf.fnal.gov (Michael Glass at Fermilab)
F A M I L Y V A L U D A Y S
at
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Portraits include Father, Mother (slightly shorter), and
two children. Extra children at no charge.
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(*) Terms and conditions to be revealed after 1/21/93.
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-- Your choice of QUALITY SCHOOLS! (*)
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-- 88 pc plastic DAN AND MARILYN DOLL SET, now only $22.88! (*)
Includes plastic replica of Air Force 2, his 'n her offices
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will fit.)
(*) DAN doll slightly irregular.
-- 1000 pc plastic GEORGE AND BARBARA DOLL SET! Includes Golf
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pills, Secret Service agents, children and grandchildren (*)
and much more!
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The Buchananstain Bears Meet a Non-Judeochristian
" " " and Too Many Homosexuals!
" " " and the Liberal Media
" " " in the Cultural War
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James Baker World Travel Kit, includes passport, Mid-East
proposals, dictionary, field guide to world leaders
Syrian Dictator Mask (replaced by Iraqi Dictator Mask)
Drug-Loving Mexican Pres. Dart Board (replaced by NAFTA)
Environmental Protection Agency
Education President coloring books
Sam Skinner / John Sununu / Dick Thornburgh action figures
Anita Hill Halloween Mask (not scary enough)
-- 1000s more items at BIG DISCOUNTS
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Selected by Brad Templeton. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com.
If you see a problem with an RHF posting, reply to the poster please, not to
me. Ask the poster to forward comments back to me if this is necessary.
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skc54 (Shourov Keith Chatterji):
I have now moved to Sr. House, Nichols 101.
Drop by and visit.
My USPS mailing address is:
Shourov K. Chatterji
4 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
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solo26 (Keith M Swartz):
First of all, I've moved. I'm now at:
32 Whites Ave, #48
Watertown MA 02172
923-9873 (Whatever A Female Wants, The People Deliver)
Other than that, the deal is the same: I'm a second-year grad student. I
was 6A with Digital, but they turned out to be racist reverse-
discriminating bastards, so I quit. I am NOT graduating this year. Why?
Because I don't have a thesis. No, not that I didn't finish it, I don't
HAVE one. Why? Because I'm not interested in anything. What will it be?
A masters and bachelors together. When do I leave? 93 if I'm lucky. 94
if I'm not. Never if this keeps up. Thank God for the drums.
Now stop asking me.
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
New Ideas
Sam (Mr. Clean) Silverstein of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, advised the
Federal Election Commission he was running for President on a platform
that included abolishing Wednesday, decreasing the velocity of bullets
by 98 percent, and eliminating the Postal Service deficit by issuing
ten-cent stamps bearing nude photographs of famous Americans.
from No Comment
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therese (Therese):
Why are these women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can't see what it is that they despise
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone. They dance alone.
-Sting
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