Word: coax
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...unclear is how effectively the problems have been solved. Jim Chiddix, Time Warner Cable's chief technical officer, acknowledges that it's taken the company longer than expected to work out glitches, but adds that "our new network works. Akron is the real deal." The solution to balky coax networks? Replace the balkiest portions with gleaming fiber-optic wire. The Akron system and those that follow, says Britt, will run fiber from the head ends to local nodes serving 500 homes apiece...
...chief among them their own survival. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 freed media giants of all persuasions to compete in one another's markets. With everybody from the Baby Bells to Bill Gates breathing down their neck, cable operators have little choice but to lay fiber over their aging coax networks as the old analog media converge into one big digital stream. High-speed Net access, for the moment, is just an intriguing appetizer to a main course comprising telephones, wireless data services and even interactive television. "Eventually this architecture will let us do what we've done in Orlando...
Morello, with his mix of invention and restraint, makes for a guitar hero the post-Nirvana crowd can embrace. His playing is not indulgent--rarely will he take an all-out, all-eyes-on-me solo--but it is attention grabbing nonetheless. Like Hendrix, he can coax strange sounds from his guitar: metallic rasps, hip-hop-like scratches, notes that snap back like rubber. And yet, like U2's the Edge and R.E.M.'s Buck, he works in tightly focused riffs and bursts...
...pages; $24), his dad was both a kindly parent and a world-class rummy. Sober enough during the week, on paydays Malachy McCourt would guzzle away his wages at a pub and, late Friday night, stagger home, penniless. There, while his wife Angela wept and railed, he would coax his sons into singing old patriot tunes and roar that they must be ready to die for Ireland. Next morn, as oft as not, he would be too groggy for work. And thus was another job lost...
Microsurgery and gene guns are the newest weapons doctors are using to coax stubborn hair follicles to bloom again. Microsurgically implanted grafts with one or two hairs each result in less puckering and bleeding than do larger implants with more hairs. With gene guns (still experimental), doctors might have an efficient way of delivering a new hair directly into a follicle by encasing it in a bullet made of fat. More encouraging yet, this year researchers studying a genetic disorder that causes hair and tooth loss identified the first gene that may be associated with baldness. They speculate that...