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Sales of videoconferencing hardware totaled $1.1 billion last year, according to Wainhouse Research, which tracks the industry. Auxiliary businesses also did well. Telecommunications companies like Verizon and Southwestern Bell, which provide the digital ISDN lines that are used for 80% of videoconferencing communication (at about 60[cents] per minute) posted more than $3.6 billion in videoconferencing-related sales last year. Bristol-Myers Squibb alone logged 2 million minutes in videoconferences (which in turn saved the company hundreds of millions of dollars in travel expenses). Wainhouse projects that revenues for connection services related to videoconferencing will top $8.6 billion...
...midnight on June 2, 2001, a squad came out of the jungle seeking medical treatment for injured fighters. They stormed the Torres hospital and holed up inside. The police and army mounted a day-long siege, exchanging fire with Abu Sayyaf fighters stationed behind hospital windows and in the bell tower of neighboring St. Peter's Church, where Father Cirilo Nacorda, who himself had been an Abu Sayyaf hostage for two months in 1994 (and who now keeps two guns in his office), hid from the battle. By late afternoon, both sides were running low on ammunition. Then the soldiers...
...letter sigma is the mathematical symbol for the underlying population standard deviation, which marks off important divisions of the Gaussian distribution. That distribution is better know as the bell shaped curve, and it has been used to rank you against your peers since you first learned to bubble in letters in fourth grade. Its single broad hump and leisurely asymptotic decline account for the gifted, the dull and the discontented masses in between...
...those of you who somehow don’t know what a carillon is—and I regrettably suspect you might be quite numerous—a carillon is a set of more than 23 bells (think Lowell bell tower). Indeed the largest set in the world has 77. They can weigh from a few pounds to a few tons. They are played from a console, and most importantly, are in tune (perhaps you had better stop thinking of Lowell). The music they create is beautiful (now you should think the opposite of Lowell) and majestic. This is truly...
Against the stark backdrop of Adams House Art Space, odd bulges, ironic twists and surreal cartoon-style drawings expertly mar the serenity of pieces created by Susan E. Bell ’03. “Party Scene,” Bell’s depiction of “the party generation,” will make you want to forget entirely about Harvard parties. As for “Dave’s Girlfriend”—well, she’s got a style and an unexpected allure all to herself...