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...though, is its acrobatic troop. The first and best of these acts, the Tchelnokov family, performs a breathtaking set of contortions. Anton Tchelnokov, age eight, seems to have inherited all of the bizarre flexibility and uncanny strength of his parents; his skinny little frame is apparently composed of some fiber that allows him to slither snakelike and twist himself into pretzelian shapes. At one point, his father holds this spindly little tyke--by the feet--parallel to the ground, ribs sticking out and grin plastered to his face, for several frightening seconds. Although their act verges on the grotesque, this...
...strategy is to put in the fiber asinexpensively as possible in a massive way," saysPaul C. Martin '52, dean of the Division ofApplied Sciences...
According to Martin, who serves on the StandingCommittee report issued in May 1992 aboutconstructing a FAS-wide network, the fiber opticnetwork will cost less than $1 million. "We workvery hard to keep that price down," says Martin...
Forming the backbone of the HSDN are tens ofthousands of feet of fiber optic cables,ultra-thin glass wires which transmit digital datain the form of laser-generated light. "Fiber isthe only vehicle that will support us for the longhaul," says Holmes...
Unlike conventional metal wires, according toHolmes, fiber optic cables are cost-effectivesince they will not rust or break...