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Web Watch - March 2000
The Morning Glory

http://www.dropbears.com/brough/Aopa.htm
The metereological phenomenon known as the Morning Glory is a huge propagating roll cloud that appears in the spring over the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia. Russell White’s Web site contains pictures and descriptions of the cloud, as well as glider pilots’ accounts of “surfing” along the cloud. The longest article on the site, “The Morning Glory of the Gulf of Carpentaria,” serves as a good introduction to the topic.

screenshot from The Time Lords

http://www.bbc.co.uk/horizon/timelord.shtml
The possibility of time travel was the subject of a television program originally broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corp in December 1996. Called The Time Lords, the program included interviews with many leading theoretical physicists, among them Kip Thorne and John Wheeler. A transcript of the show is available on the BBC’s Web site.

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http://chronicle.merit.edu/jobs/99/09/99091701c.htm http://chronicle.merit.edu/jobs/99/12/99120301c.htm
Two items on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Career Network Web site are likely to interest you if you’re looking for a job. In CV Doctor, Mary Heiberger and Julia Miller Vick annotate academic curricula vitae to demonstrate how to present your talents and qualifications effectively. In From CV to Résumé, Margaret Newhouse explains how to modify an academic CV when you apply for a job outside academia.

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