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Currently, the fastest modems that can be hooked up to ordinary phone lines (as opposed to dedicated data lines) process up to 28,800 bits of uncompressed data per second, a speed that is pushing the physical limit on the metal wires and one HASCS is not about to support any time soon...
...growing number of other earthlings. Not only is Klingon a real language, sort of, it is the fastest growing language in the universe (if you consider that it started with a base line of zero speakers in the mid-1980s). It was invented by a linguist named Marc Okrand, whose business is producing closed captions for television. He happened to be in the Paramount cafeteria having lunch with a friend just when the producers of the film Star Trek II were desperately looking for someone with a Ph.D. to do a bit of Vulcan dialogue. Okrand offered his services...
Harvard sophomore Deborah Kory re-established herself as the fastest Harvard swimmers ever in the 200-yard individual medley at the NCAA women's swimming championships in Minneapolis, Minn., this past weekend...
...soft wind gets into their hair." In another world, where houses are on wheels and zoom around the city, it is discovered that time moves more slowly for people in motion. In this world, however, the happiest people are those who have stopped competing to live in the fastest house, but instead "rise in the morning, take baths, eat plaited bread and ham, work at their desks, listen to music, talk to their children, lead lives of satisfaction...
Rightsizing. Restructuring. Downsizing. The terms are cold and unemotional. Yet the euphemisms of the early 1990s all mean the same thing: layoffs. Over the past five years, corporate America has been driven by a single-minded mission to gut itself of "excess workers." It was supposed to be the fastest and easiest way to cut business costs, be more competitive and raise profits -- or at least that's what many top executives thought...