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...growth. Most have tried to break into local-phone markets on the cheap by negotiating with the incumbent to lease and resell service on its lines. Bryan's company decided to exploit a provision in the act 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...
...excerpts from his extensive writings, a few of the natural specimens he collected and drew, and personal effects such as his embroidered leather coat and trousers, beaded moccasins and bear-claw necklace. And all these artifacts are rather dimly lit, since the Smithsonian could not afford to install the fiber-optic lighting that would protect precious illustrations from fading. But Audubon would have found any tribute to himself insufficient; while he lived, he was as easy to admire for his achievements as he was difficult to like for his aggressive and vainglorious personality...
...have seen how popular the net kiosks around campus have been. Why not have similar stations on street corners and at supermarkets? Every American who wants one should be assigned a lifetime e-mail address. Take steps to promote the installation of fiber optic cable nationwide or enact a tax break for personal computer purchases...
...some hacker wants to get him, in the worst possible way. "I promise you will be held accountable, and I will dedicate every fiber of my being towards retribution," an anonymous messenger vowed by E-mail. "My actions will be far beyond what you will expect and there will be nothing you can do about...
...heart of her novel lies in a funny, extraordinary other world where men, hit by lightning, start to read everything backward and women swallow silver dust to cure themselves of hallucinations (it doesn't work). The everyday magic of this invisible realm is given fiber by the hard facts of natural history she incorporates, and the sheer extravagance of Cuban thinking ("Dreams about carne asada can mean only one thing," a radio hostess opines: "that the caller should devote her life to God"). Writing in a voice not quite like any other, Garcia takes exuberant flight without ever taking leave...