Word: belle
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...Mango, which can call only one number, have been sold: principally to parents, who give them to their children so the children can regularly phone home--especially those serving in the army. Sven-Christer Nilsson, president of Ericsson, recently observed that it took about 120 years from Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the conventional telephone to wire up 1 billion customers worldwide. Current estimates by mobile operators suggest the same number of mobile subscribers could be online by the year 2005. Little wonder that traditional computer companies are scrambling to enter the mobile business. Bill Gates, whose...
TROY GARITY's name probably doesn't ring a bell. That was the intent of his parents--Jane Fonda and current California state senator TOM HAYDEN--when they gave it to him. As a fame shield, it didn't work too well. On one of his first days at school, he says, a kid came up to him and said, "Guess what? Jane Fonda's son is here!" Garity's anonymity will be further shattered when he appears as his dad in the film Abbie!, based on the life of Abbie Hoffman. Has his dad sucked...
...increasingly homogenous and media-saturated country, one utterly devoid of places with real individuality. We drove through town after town, always seeing the same thing: a depressed downtown area dotted with closed shops and "For Sale" signs and an area on the outskirts of town where Wal-Mart, Taco Bell and other such stores existed in all their banal, sterilized splendor. There was a stretch in Minnesota and Wisconsin where there were definitely more Pizza Huts than grocery stores...
...image of small town America? Perhaps I am a little too naive, a little too romantic in my notion of what the American West should be like. But it seems that it couldn't always have been this homogenous. Yes, Wal-Marts are now ubiquitous, and that Taco Bell chihuahua exhorts people across the nation to eat gorditas, but it wasn't always so. Besides strip malls, chain stores and other such monuments to consumerism, the other factor contributing to the increasing uniformity of America is the combination of cable TV and other forms of media saturation...
...allows Mexico $18 million for the purchase of six Bell 212 helicopters for use in Guerrero, Jalisco, and Sinaloa states, only a few hundred miles from the heart of the Chiapas rebellion. Meanwhile, resolutions and letters circulate condemning the conflicts in Colombia and Mexico and call for peace. If the U.S. is willing to aid any country militarily, it must also be prepared to become involved in the wars recipient countries are fighting. With recent comparisons to the U.S. involvement in El Salvador in the 1980s and even to Vietnam, recognition of the role we play in these conflicts...