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...Another souvenir Discovery brings home: A successful navigation experiment with Global Positioning System satellites. For the first time ever, the shuttle successfully received GPS data -- and that's something of a relief after a $33 million antimatter experiment was ruined Tuesday by communication breakdowns. Coming after the antenna malfunction that prevented TV broadcasts of their Mir hookup, the astronauts must have wondered whether their record of woes would outpace the Russian station's. Now the only thing they need worry about is storage space...
...great waves were so hard to find. In the early '80s, while he and his buddies were roaming the sparsely populated beaches of the Baja Peninsula, Collins began spinning out his first crude forecasts, downloading satellite weather maps in the middle of the desert with the help of an antenna strung from a cactus, a short-wave radio and a portable fax machine. In 1985 he helped set up Surfline, a Huntington Beach, Calif., firm that distributes daily wave forecasts at a charge of $1.50 to those who call its 900-976-SURF hot line. So accurate are Collins' forecasts...
...perhaps the most telling validation of television deprivation is that Bradley-Moore and Jacoby both plan to follow their parents' lead, though with modifications. When she gets older, Jacoby says that she will probably have a VCR and a television, but no cable or antenna. Even "Must-See TV" is not something she really sees the need for. Bradley-Moore muses, "The big question is going to be if I have one when I get married and have kids. I think maybe I'll just get one for myself and put a lock on it and let them watch `Sesame...
...antenna built into the roof provides crystal-clear satellite-TV reception (with up to 200 channels) and high-speed Internet access...
...every household and college dorm room in America. Why should the Harvard houses be the exception? Every Harvard resident should be able to watch Ab and Magnus hoist compact cars over their heads or buy a limited edition Joan Rivers hairpin on the Home Shopping Network. Fiddling with the antenna for five channels went out of style with the rotary phone and leaded gasoline...