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...Brilliant is engaged in his most audacious climb yet. The business plan he wrote for Cometa Networks--a joint venture of AT&T, IBM, Intel and others--is every bit as obstacle filled as trying to cure smallpox or getting people to pay to talk to others via computer. Cometa's goal is to take a technology that is exploding in every major city in the U.S., Europe and the Pacific Rim--grass-roots wireless Internet service that is as accessible as any radio signal, and often as free--and figure out a way to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unwired: Will You Buy WiFi? | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

Brilliant will stick around to see the outcome, even now that Weis has taken over the CEO role. "I'm on the board of directors," Brilliant says. "They can't get rid of me." After all, there's still one more mountain to climb. --With reporting by Leslie Berestein/Los Angeles, Joshua Macht/New York, Laura A. Locke/San Francisco and Donald Macintyre/Seoul

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unwired: Will You Buy WiFi? | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...Washington Monument in our country’s capitol. Located in the historic Charlestown neighborhood, this towering obelisk commemorates the site of the first major battle of the Revolutionary War when colonial militia men valiantly defended the strategic hilltop against the Red-coat invaders on June 17, 1775. Climb up the 294 steps inside the monument for a great view of downtown Boston. The Bunker Hill Monument provides irrefutable proof that prudish Bostonians appreciate a patriotic phallus as much as the average American...

Author: By Caroline L. Donchess, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: You Say You Want (to Remember) a Revolution? | 4/17/2003 | See Source »

...drove him to school, James watched the meter climb until it reached the maximum that he could afford to pay, at which point he told the driver that he would walk to school. The driver, sympathetic, turned off the meter and drove him the rest...

Author: By Jason D. Park, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard-Bound Soldier in Iraq Dies in Helicopter Crash | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

...well-known New England name,” Walsh says. “He’s got a nasty slider, and he’s a strike thrower. His size is deceiving, and with innings his velocity, 85-plus with either arm, will climb...

Author: By Sean W. Coughlin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Newcomers Answer Ivy Champs' Call to Arms | 4/10/2003 | See Source »

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