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...telephone companies to complete calls and therefore were not capital outlays but operating costs, which should be expensed in full each year. It was as if an ordinary person had paid his phone bills but written down the payments as if he were building a phone tower in his backyard. The trick allowed WorldCom to turn a $662 million loss into a $2.4 billion profit...
...Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski; 23 and 27 years, respectively, to catch Kathleen Soliah and James Kilgore of the Symbionese Liberation Army; and for six years and counting, Eric Rudolph, the alleged '96 Atlanta Olympics bomber, has been at large, happily grilling venison burgers deep in the backwoods of our own backyard. Stephen Phillips Narberth...
...communities is through camouflage. Sprint PCS recently agreed to pay an estimated $150,000 to fix up--and wire up--a century-old windmill in a ritzy section of Fairfield, Conn. The mansions there have lousy cellular reception because well-heeled neighbors don't want a tower in their backyard. "We've got millionaires sitting in their driveways just so they can use their cell phones," says an exasperated resident...
...spent decades building fake habitats for such clients as Disney World and the Bronx Zoo, developed the first "tree" tower in 1992. TeleFlage founder Nancy Tuggle got into the business after serving on a planning board in a San Diego suburb that nixed a proposed tower in someone's backyard. She directed PacBell to a nearby school and six years later is forming a coalition of camouflagers to help companies expand their networks by educating the public about alternative tower designs. "With concealment as an option, it doesn't seem so bad," she says...
...Egemen Bagis: We would not want to have a war with Iraq, but we would not want to live with weapons of mass destruction in our backyard, either. We are hoping that Saddam will comply with UN resolutions, and that any weapons of mass destruction will be eliminated. If Iraq does, indeed, have weapons of mass destruction, then their greatest threat would be to the people of Turkey. So, the Justice and Development Party would like to see the results and reports of the UN weapons inspectors. And these have to be discussed at the United Nations. As a member...