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...DONE Tumors can be examined with a miniature fiber-optic camera that is inserted through the nipple and into a milk duct. Eventually surgeons may be able to treat tumors through the same tiny probe...
...AVAILABILITY The fiber-optic scope was okayed by the FDA last summer. Using it for treatment may be less than five years away...
Bandwidth, the capacity of a fiber-optic line to transmit data from one place to another, was considered to be a commodity for which demand was virtually limitless. But as investors in U.S.-based telecommunications company Global Crossing have learned, "endless demand" turned out to be another New Economy nostrum. Anticipating a data tsunami that never came, Global Crossing built a $10 billion, 160,000-km fiber-optic network spanning two oceans and four continents. Last week, the New York Stock Exchange-listed company filed for U.S. bankruptcy court protection in order to restructure its $12.3 billion debt...
...month, Global Crossing's international network seemed like the right idea at the right time?investors certainly bought into the conceit, driving Global Crossing stock price up to a peak of $60 in February 2000. As Internet traffic has slowed, however, that optimistic build-out has resulted in a fiber-optic glut?too much capacity and too little traffic. Transmission prices on some routes fell 50% a year in 1999 and 2000. Analysts estimate that less than 5% of Global Crossing's total capacity is being utilized. "They built a formidable network, but they got caught between rapidly mounting debt...
...magazine. She loves: The Boondocks, Tom Tomorrow’s This Modern World, the Dead Kennedys, the Coup, Sherman Alexie, sewing magazines, peanut butter and trashy science fiction novels. She dislikes: Cathy (the comic strip), Barbie (the doll) and political cartoons about donkeys and elephants. She loathes with every fiber of her being: George W. Bush and his co-conspirators...