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...where electricity is scarce--from archaeological digs to disaster scenes, says Sally Lyon, co-founder of Boulder-based Lumin Innovative Products, which invented the system. Fellow founder and former Air Force engineer Ben Adams, who hatched the idea three years ago as he lugged a generator through the Nevada desert to hook up a communications system, is negotiating this month with U.S. and Australian forces to market solar wi-fi in Iraq. Each solar-paneled access point can relay wireless signals as far as 25 miles to other stations and can connect to a series of other nodes, extending...
...creation and maintenance of a Website, as compared with a radio or television broadcast, is neither difficult nor expensive. But only the richest of the people on the planet own the necessary equipment to visit such exclusive religious sites as those of the brothers of Christ in the Desert or the Vatican. The rich are at the top of the information mountain; the poor receive the leavings. While mainline denominations and lesser-known religions get equal time in cyberspace, a realignment of membership will affect only the rich. The poor will still depend on real persons to tend to their...
...brother Renee, the figure of Mary Renee’s wife, and the angel the wife of one of Renee’s neighbors. The pianist, with his strangely blurred face, is looking past the figure of Mary to the angel. His gaze is disturbingly prophetic: Renee would eventually desert his wife and run away with his neighbor’s wife.The technical aspects of the painting are equally ambiguous. According to Wolohojian, the eye of the viewer is “immediately drawn to the pearl earring” in the angel’s ear. But that precise...
...minutes of “Domino.” Christopher Walken is referred to as having “the attention span of a ferret on crystal meth.” There’s a naked mescaline-induced sex scene with Knightley in the middle of the Nevada desert. Vengeful mob bosses take cast members of “Beverly Hills: 90210” hostage...
...said Cobb.The interior of each building echoes the rational, grid-like lines of the exterior’s windows, thus sending out the clear message that CGIS is the home of well-established academic disciplines. Yet the interior is not devoid of human warmth. Like little oases in a desert of offices, intimate spaces with comfortable furniture are strategically scattered across each floor, encouraging discussions perhaps sometimes lacking in Gov sections.The two pairs of brightly colored staircases, for instance, are indicative of Cobb’s intention to create a vibrant place. The walls of each staircase are painted...