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...secluded getaway on Green Turtle Cay. Good question, thought her spouse. By 1988, Bertiger and two colleagues had drafted blueprints for a revolutionary new system that would blanket the heavens with communications satellites--77 in all--bounce a cellular call from one to another, then beam the data stream downward 420 miles to one of 12 earth stations where the call would enter the terrestrial telephone network. Motorola dubbed the system--and the company it spun off to build and operate it--Iridium, after the 77th element on the periodic table. (After trimming the number of satellites required...
...giants explore and drill for crude and natural gas, were market darlings from 1995 to 1997, but now have more detractors than anything west of Indonesia. Though many oil-service firms are already trading near two-year lows, analysts' earnings estimates for them will soon be revised further downward. No brokerage will want the likes of Halliburton or Schlumberger on its "recommended" list. The gloom around these stocks is only deepening. And I am buying them hand over fist...
...many voters believe Boston's system ofpublic education is also heading downward. Sincehalf of Boston is part of the eighth, it's nosurprise that children--and how theylearn--dominated the final candidate debate lastThursday in Boston's WGBH studios...
...brought up on Parson Weems' smarmy fable about young George Washington's perfect truthfulness. Honesty has been a casualty in the eyes of Americans ever since. Today, Bok notes, the public sees a politician's clever dodge as no different from a big fat lie. We're defining deception downward...
MOSCOW: Anybody here? President Clinton is expected at the Kremlin Monday, but he may find it difficult to determine just who is in charge of Russia. As the economy lurches into free fall and drags world markets downward, rumors abound that a lame-duck President Boris Yeltsin is about to step down, while his prime minister-designate Viktor Chernomyrdin still awaits confirmation...