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...Level 3, AT&T and Qwest. Although optical fibers that transmit light waves have been around since the 1970s, only in the past few years have companies like JDS Uniphase and Corning figured out how to send prodigious amounts of information through those fibers by dividing light waves into channels and then packing data into each channel. A single channel is like a light bulb going on and off 10 billion times a second, flashing the 0's and 1's of binary computer code down the fiber...
Defenders of the beauty industry argue it is India that has just discovered its radiant masses. Urban women are spending more on looking good, signing up for aerobics, skin treatments, silicon implants and nose or jaw jobs, which occasionally end in disaster. Cable TV, especially the 24-hour fashion channel, has brought with it a dramatically different notion of dressing. Tight skirts, cocktail dresses and power suits are In, even for women used to being seen in a wispy sari. As the Indian economy prospers, there is much more income to spare on designer wear. "The quality [of contestants...
...venom purchased from Kristensen in the 1980s, for example, helped neuroscientist Rodolfo Llinas of New York University School of Medicine discover a new calcium channel involved in the communication between certain neurons, shedding new light on how the mind works. Another toxin extracted from Spider Pharm venom in 1995 by Kenton Swartz at the National Institutes of Health (named hanatoxin after Swartz's daughter) is being used to probe the function of proteins that are located on cellular membranes and have been implicated in diseases ranging from diabetes to epilepsy...
Finally, we channel the spirit of Joe Bloggs--the fictional character created by The Princeton Review to teach high schoolers how not to take the SAT. An average student, Joe nails all the easy questions (except for the ones he makes careless mistakes on) and misses all the hard ones. Once students are armed with this knowledge, "What would Joe do?" becomes a question rivaling the familiar bumper sticker query in cosmic importance. On hard questions, you probe the answer choices for the likely Joe Bloggs answer--that is, the most appealing (read: wrong) answer. When you identify the answer...
...world's fifth biggest economy; the No. 4 exporter; and a world leader in transportation (the TGV bullet train), aerospace (Airbus and the Ariane rocket, produced in France with European partners), telecommunications (mobile phones and wireless technology) and civil engineering (the dazzling new Normandy Bridge and the Franco-British Channel Tunnel). With assets like these, the country is well placed to benefit from the cyclical upturn lifting all European economies. Meanwhile, aggressive French firms are making their mark abroad. Vivendi last month announced a merger with Canada's Seagram that will give the new company control of Universal's film...