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...began in 1985 while Barry Bertiger, an engineer at Motorola, was vacationing in the Bahamas with his wife Karen. She wondered aloud why she couldn't call home from their secluded getaway on Green Turtle Cay. Good question, thought her spouse. By 1988, Bertiger and two colleagues had drafted blueprints for a revolutionary new system that would blanket the heavens with communications satellites--77 in all--bounce a cellular call from one to another, then beam the data stream downward 420 miles to one of 12 earth stations where the call would enter the terrestrial telephone network. Motorola dubbed...
...Would any of your friends have put you on the mailing list as a joke?" my father wondered aloud. Nope. As quirky as my friends might be, I couldn't see anyone signing me up for a senior citizens' discount account...
Keith L. Cynar '00 and his friends were enjoying their return to Harvard on a recent evening. As they sat relaxing in the Lowell courtyard, they read aloud from a newspaper. Their entertainment for the night? The Kenneth W. Starr report...
...arsenal has proved enough to deter its old enemies from new aggression. But an Israeli official admits that Tehran's development of longer-range missiles "is a big deal because the Iranians are not known to follow the same logic as some of our other neighbors." President Clinton worried aloud that the Iranian missile "could change the regional-stability dynamics in the Middle East." What that means, says Ian Lesser, an analyst with the Rand Corp., is that in a future crisis, such allies as Saudi Arabia and Turkey won't be eager to join U.S.-led coalitions against Tehran...
...some interesting angles to the hackneyed production. Rather than starting out as full-fledged living clocks and feather-dusters, the castle characters reveal that they are slowly turning into houseware, which adds a nice touch of humanity to the painfully splashy musical. Also, through conversations and (ahem) read-aloud sessions, Belle's love for the Beast develops because they both feel isolated and rejected in their respective homes. This is a particularly refreshing change, since the "beauty" in the story is usually depicted as coming down from her pedestal to love the "beast" despite his ugliness, rather than because they...