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Focuses on what it is like to be a game official for the National Football League (NFL). Size of the crews; Number of crews of officials that travel, eat and work together for two or three days every weekend of the United States football season; Responsibilities; Attributes of a good official, according to Jerry Seeman, NFL director of officials; Length of assignments. INSETS: Whatever the Weather;What it takes to be a pro official.

Focuses on the Gettysburg address, the speech given by President Abraham Lincoln at the dedication of the military cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863. How it compared to that given by orator Edward Everett; What Lincoln thought of the speech; How people responded to it.

Discusses the prizes associated with Cracker Jack popcorn. Introduction of Cracker Jacks at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; Early boxes having coupons for prizes; Prizes later given by grocers; Prizes included in boxes, including clickers and plastic figures; Only paper prizes given since the early 1980s.

Focuses on the readjustment of retirement plans, such as 401(k) or 401(b). An asset-allocation plan and risk adjustment; Options with the 401(k)/403(b) plans; Possibility of transaction fees or redemption charges; Psychology of the financial markets; Contact point for 401k Forum, an Internet site specializing in retirement issues; Points to consider if moving retirement money; Results of a survey from the Lutheran Brotherhood, an insurance company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Focuses on the computer programming language Fortran, which was developed by John Backus in 1954. How Fortran was the first programming language for numerical calculations; Changes which have been made in Fortran; Its use for large computability difficulty spanning many orders of scale; Areas where Fortran is used most.