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...that allows utilities to offer phone service. Many of them have modern fiber-optic communications networks to monitor plants and transmission over wide areas, and Bryan offered to use their extra capacity for phone service. Last year, for example, ICG signed a deal with Southern California Edison and won rights to use the utility's 1,260 miles of lines and switches spanning the key markets of Los Angeles and San Diego. Building such a "backbone" for a local telecommunications network from scratch would have cost much more time and money...
...plan, the school year would run roughly from Aug. 15 to June 30. It would include about 200 days instead of the current norm of 180. Summer vacation would last six weeks instead of 10. Today, some 100 schools are following this schedule, including a dozen schools in the Edison Project. Edison is accumulating evidence that the idea works...
John E. Chubb is director of curriculum for the Edison Project and nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he authored numerous studies on student achievement...
...Thomas Edison invents the cylinder player...
...real mystery, scientists say, is not that the positrons were created. It's that they were lobbed so many thousands of light-years above the galactic plane, like water droplets scattered by a giant geyser. Scientists offered several competing explanations last week. Rice University astrophysicist Edison Liang thinks black holes may be the key. While most of the stuff that falls into a black hole stays there, he observes, some of it gets blasted out in the form of a hot wind. Liang's hypothesis draws strength from the fact that there appear to be a good half a dozen...