Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Their research focuses on glutamate, an excitatory neurotransmitter. Scientists had believed that it might be possible to limit cell death after a stroke by stopping glutamate from killing neighboring cells, but until now, little was known about the intracellular routes through which glutamate carries out its deadly "excitotoxic" effects...
Wouldn't it be great if you could call your friends or family, your boss or stockbroker--even while you're trekking in the Himalayas? If you didn't have to lug around one of those briefcase-size satellite phones, but instead had a cell phone just slightly larger than the one you carry now? How much of a premium would you be willing to pay for such convenience? Two American-based firms with a list of global backers that reads like a high-tech Who's Who are rolling the dice in a multibillion-dollar gamble that they...
...arrangement with existing cellular dealers turns out to be a serendipitous marriage of marketing and technology. Without resellers, customers would be few, and without cell technology, service would be limited. At first Iridium planned a purist, sky-to-ground approach that would have cut out the local cellular-network middlemen. But that wasn't very feasible in the glass-and-steel canyons of bustling cities, where customers would be out of the line of sight of the heavens and service would be spotty. (Imagine explaining to an irked CEO that his pricey new handset won't work from his office...
...ordinary cell phones are any guide, the signs are promising. Back in 1982, according to FCC data, only 43,000 people in the U.S. had mobile phones. Optimists predicted that number would increase to as many as 900,000 American users by 2000--peanuts compared with the 50 million-some subscribers today...
Technology was supposed to make our lives simpler. Instead we're stuck with 40-lb. monitors, beeping cell phones and a rat's nest of cables. Now JVC and Sharp are making truly simple handheld devices for sending and receiving e-mail. Users just type a note, dial a toll-free number on any phone, then hold the device up to the mouthpiece while short, modemlike screeches indicate that messages are being transmitted. Available this fall, JVC's $100 HC-E100 and Sharp's $150 TelMail require a $10 monthly...