Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...holographic re-creations of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. Rachelle Chong, a member of the Federal Communications Commission, has decorated her office with Trek paraphernalia and dressed up as Captain Picard for Halloween. "I like the show because it shows me tomorrow," she says. And sometimes today: the cellular phone-like communicators used by the Trek crew back in the 1960s are almost exact precursors of the personal-communication systems the FCC has just begun issuing licenses...
...opposite direction. The Yuan T. Lees of tomorrow still flock to elite North American and European universities for advanced degrees, but more and more they are seeking employment in Asia, where opportunities to pursue careers in research are expanding almost as fast as sales of designer clothes and cellular phones...
...women-owned firms. (After those companies receive credits, the government haul drops to $394 million, the FCC said.) The auction, which had six companies competing per region, was designed to produce winners ready to offer consumers increased competition and lower prices, unlike the two-firm limit in current cellular markets. Next (and last) up: On Dec. 5, 74 companies -- including heavy hitters like AT&T, Sprint, TCI and Comcast -- bid for another 99 licenses covering 51 regions.Post your opinion on theNew Mediabulletin board...
...deadline triggered a frenzy of late-night telephone calls among local phone companies (the so-called Baby Bells), the major long-distance phone companies, the big cable-TV operators and a bunch of cellular-phone start-ups. When the dust settled, the biggest player on the field -- the partnership of AT&T and McCaw Cellular Communications -- was being challenged by two other behemoths: a joint venture formed by Sprint and a trio of cable TV operators; and a foursome of Baby Bells made up of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, US West and the cellular spin-off of Pacific Telesis. After being...
...team, which included Medical School Professor of Anatomy and Cellular Biology Dr. Judah M. Folkman, found that a fragment of the protein plasminogen prevents the growth of blood vessels around secondary tumors called metastases...