From fairytale romances to dating disasters and everything in between, The Dating Game chronicles the stories of hopefuls on their journey toward happily ever after. In this compilation of dating stories, sixteen writers share tales of adventures and experiences while on the quest toward finding Mr. Right. From Tania Renee Zayid 's story of what happens when one woman becomes determined to keep the perfect man that she met online . . . to Natalie Leffall's hilarious look into the dating world of a plus-size girl . . . to Keleigh and Gina's rib-tickling and surprisingly dangerous, speed dating fiasco. . . and Gina Torres' tale of love, heartache, and the power of letting go . . . these diverse stories will make you laugh, cry, and root for the characters to land Mr. Right.

Contains the proceedings of the first RTO Human Factors and Medical Panel (HFM) Symposium, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, April 20-22, 1998, including the Technical Evaluation Report and Keynote Addresses. Research and applications in human factors has frequently only considered individual operator interfaces, for limited work domains in well-defined scenarios, as evaluated by unitary measures. As we progress towards the next millennium, complex operations will increasingly require consideration and integration of the collaborative element wherein crew performance becomes a critical factor for success. The goal of this symposium has been to bring together a global perspective on issues and factors that need to be understood when systems design is focused on the crew operating in a complex environment. Hence, the papers contained in these proceedings give the reader a broad, multidisciplinary view of needs, requirements, ongoing research and development projects, and various research agendas that will bring about new technologies, approaches, and measures with regard to collaborative crew performance. The papers and multiple perspectives contained in these proceedings provide a baseline for understanding many elements of crew performance and in that sense will be valuable for the human factors specialist that must now design for the collaborative element and be concerned with the broad bandwidth of complexities within the operational setting. Additionally, the volume provides information for researchers, scientists, and engineers in many different areas who find themselves immersed in collaborative systems design.

Previously entitled Blood Son.

The satellite 1967-31A (ATS2), launched in April 1967, was unusual in having a low perigee (180 km initially), a near-constant cross-sectional area and a lifetime of more than two years. Its orbit was analyzed to obtain 212 values of air density, mainly at heights between 160 and 190 km, during 14 months of high solar activity between 4 July 1968 and 2 September 1969 (when the satellite decayed). In general the air density exhibits only a weak dependence on solar activity, but the link between density and geomagnetic disturbances is obvious throughout: the two strongest geomagnetic storms, on 1 November 1968 and 15 May 1969 are accompanied by increases in density of 30% and 70% respectively. A profile of density versus height between 150 and 180 km for mid-1969 is also obtained; and a detailed comparison is made with previous results from 1968-59A. (Author).

Explorer 1, 1958 alpha, the first US artificial satellite, was launched on 1 Febrauary 1958 and remained in orbit for 12 years. In this report theoretical curves have been fitted to the values of inclination, giving three values of the average atmospheric rotation rate at heights of 350-400 km, and latitudes 0-20 degrees: Feb 1958 to mid 1960, 1.5 rev/day; Mid 1960 to Dec 1967, 1.2 rev/day; Jan 1968 to Mar 1970, 1.3 rev/day. Solar activity was very high in 1958-60, low from 1961 to 1967, and high in 1968-70; so the results strongly suggest that the rotation rate depends on solar activity, being greatest when the Sun is most active.