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ANNOUNCING NOTEBOOK CONTEST #2, in which readers are asked to consider the new Alfred Hitchcock postage stamp, shown here, and then design a stamp, depicting some current figure or event, that the Postal Service might reasonably issue in the year 2050. Fax your entry to (212) 467-1010, e-mail it to Letters@time.com or mail it to TIME Notebook Contest #2, Room 2321B, Time & Life Building, New York...
...anything was better than going home. So I applied to be the Philip Brooks House (PBH) summer receptionist, and thankfully received the job. It was basically a secretary's position and ranged from calming down campers' irate parents on the phone to fighting daily with the 200-year-old fax machine. While I met an endless number of truly amazing people, developed a classy receptionist's voice and learned to pick up a ringing phone in .25 seconds, living alone in a tiny on-campus room left my wounds unhealed and my body sleeping up to 15 hours a night...
Last year Seidenberg made $8.5 million in salary and bonus. Letters that spooled from the fax in his office at Bell Atlantic generally addressed him as "Dear Vice Chairman." For the past half decade, Seidenberg, 51, has been working to make that copper sing and dance with stuff no one could have dreamed of in 1966--video, for instance, or 3-D Web pages. He is also making that copper work closely with its successor: hair-thin fiber-optic cables that offer vastly expanded speed and capacity--which translates to consumer value and, he hopes, corporate profit. Seidenberg, who oversaw...
...mail revolution. Internet protocol (generally called IP) is a language computers use to talk to one another: a hyperefficient chatter that lets phone-company machines banter by sending digital data "packets" back and forth. These packages can contain anything--a frame of video, a few lines of a fax or a split second of conversation. The computers don't care what kind of data they are moving, which makes for a faster, cheaper way to send information...
...enter, stop booing, adapt a nursery rhyme of your choice and compose a stanza on your favorite newsmaker. Fax your entry to 212-467-1010, e-mail it to Letters@time.com or mail it to TIME Notebook Contest #1, Room 2321B, Time & Life Building, New York, N.Y. 10020. Watch this space for the winning entry...