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...Newly acquired Rockies Mike Hampton and Denny Neagle will not petition manager Buddy Bell to pitch only in home games 2. Nobody will come close to breaking Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. Not this year; not for 100 years 3. Champagne delivery truck drivers will not have any problem getting past the Yankee Stadium guard they've become friends with over the past three years...
...where are all the dreamers now? Did someone ring a bell saying the jig was up, time to cash out? Nope. They never...
Tucked into a corner of Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., stands a small box that houses what could be the future of the telecommunications industry. Called a LambdaRouter, the device contains 512 microscopic mirrors, each of which can switch light waves packed with more than 10 billion bits of information--roughly the contents of 10,000 novels--from one hair-thin strand of optical fiber to another...
...could conceivably jam thousands of these micromirrors into a soccer ball and have enough capacity to connect everyone on the planet simultaneously to everyone else without the time and expense of converting the light to electronic impulses and back again--as today's networks require. Kick that around. Declares Bell Labs scientist David Bishop, who led the development team: "You will either have a technology that does this, or you will have a going-out-of-business sale...
...told me Bush sat doodling through the five hours I might be worried," Bell says. "He should be asking pointed questions, not only to form his own opinion of the decisions involved, but also to assess the quality and compatibility of the people to whom he is delegating...