Word: connect
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...companies manage to procure enough high-quality programming, other handicaps could stall their drive toward two-way TV. Although they lead in the race to lay fiber-optic cable, much of it was originally installed to carry a high volume of phone traffic into cities and therefore does not connect to individual homes; instead, the fiber-optic trunk lines branch into twisted pairs of copper wires, which carry far less information directly to the customer. That means the companies must either replace this so-called last mile with fiber-optic cable or find a way to compress the data through...
...vehicles a day compete for 1,500 parking spaces, rangers are trying to discourage autos. Businessman Max Biegert has revived the Grand Canyon Railway, which last year trundled 100,000 passengers to the rim from the main highway 65 miles away. A rail spur under development will connect with shuttle buses that now carry visitors along the rim. Eventually a hefty fee may be imposed on motorists who insist on bringing their cars into the park...
...budget story, anyway. The box-office story unfolds this weekend. True Lies will probably connect with the movie public; it delivers lots of ballistics for the buck. T2 dazzled with the computer magic of morphing, but the software used in True Lies is less noticeable than the hardware. Says Cameron: "There's nothing that gets the back of your mind screaming, 'That's impossible!' It's revolutionary technology in the service of a photorealistic end product." That translates into seamless digital imagery and nifty stunts. When a Harrier jet isn't flying around Miami, a villain is negotiating a breathless...
Most undergraduates use computers in theScience Center to connect with the network, butabout 800 students have had connections in theirrooms activated. Administrators predict thatnumber will more than double during the next year...
Republicans maintain that costs can be held down without compelling all Americans to jump into the health pool. But premium leveling, the one component of health-care reform that enjoys almost universal support, cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Much like anatomy, all the pieces connect: the aging and the sick are connected to the young, who need employers to ease their new burden, who need the cooperation of other employers to spread the costs. Otherwise, the healthiest and the wealthiest will forgo insurance -- and America's health-care system could get even sicker...