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Born in Greenville, S.C. in 1915, Townes spent his professional career at Columbia University, Bell Laboratories and MIT before heading to Berkeley...
...David E. Bell...
...take in the stock market, Lucent - which set a record for the biggest ipo in history when it was spun off from AT&T in 1996 - still retains some glossy assets, among them a huge U.S. sales force and customer base and the research capabilities of its highly regarded Bell Laboratories. (Although any deal involving a foreign takeover of that research facility, which does some highly sensitive work for U.S. agencies, will certainly come under close scrutiny by regulators in Washington.) Moreover, Lucent's wireless infrastructure equipment, which is based on a different technology from Alcatel's, could...
...personal computer no matter how high the cool factor. The thing is, the MA-IV isn't meant to replace your trusty iMac: it is an industrial tool. Xybernaut sells these machines - a few hundred, thus far - to companies that have a large, widely dispersed maintenance staff. Bell Canada's workers, for instance, climb up poles and down manholes to fix phone lines and maintain highly sophisticated equipment. Rather than carry a bagful of printed manuals, workers strap on MA-IVs, which have all the manuals on their hard-disk drives. If a worker encounters a tricky problem with...
Ramsey says he committed his rampage because he was sick of being picked on in school, where he was nicknamed "Screech," after the geeky character in the TV show Saved by the Bell. "Nobody liked me, and I could never understand why," he says. "It was pretty bad then, but it's a lot worse now." Sometimes Ramsey will be starkly reminded of the shooting, for instance, when he recently received papers on a civil suit his victims' families have filed against the school district. "I sit there, and I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish I didn...