Word: antennas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There cords act something like antennas. Just as you can adjust an antenna for good reception, you can also adjust it for bad reception. Try moving cords and appliances around to find the place with the least interference. Bunching up wires may also help...
...facilities also include the Whipple Observatory in Arizona, which houses among other equipment the Multiple Mirror Telescope used for interferometric observations of the stars. The Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass., is also part of the CfA and features an 84-foot radio antenna currently being used to search for extraterrestrial intelligence...
...still has serious drawbacks compared with cable. Despite the space-age technology, satellite dishes cannot deliver one very homely piece of the media pie: local stations. To get them, satellite customers must either switch back to an ordinary antenna or maintain their basic cable service. Despite a better-quality picture, moreover, DBS depends on a clear line of sight to the southern sky (where DBS satellites are floating 22,000 miles above the earth) and can be disrupted by storms. And bugs still remain in the digital picture quality: very fast action, such as football plays, can sometimes break...
...tiny community (pop. 301) has no traffic lights and no full- time doctor. Many telephones are still on party lines, and the nearest , supermarket is 50 miles away. Television too has largely bypassed the town. Arietta is too remote and unprofitable to be wired for cable, and a good antenna brings in only two or, at most, three stations. Between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. during the summer, because of solar interference, even those stations disappear...
...people were in the process of getting hacked to death in Rwanda, sparking the largest refugee exodus in recent memory. Though several local television news outlets felt compelled to send crews to cover the Simpson "story," not a single televised report came out of Rwanda until a French Antenna 2 crew followed the French military in. A lot of death, sure, but no sex or intrigue or mystery...