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...with Facilities Maintenance a few years ago informed me that Harvard conducts only "spot treatments" of herbicides and pesticides. We need to ask ourselves if an occasional weed is that much of a threat. The "green stuff" sprayed each year contains an apparently benign mix of seed, fertilizer, fiber and food coloring (the reason it's green). Is the coloring really necessary? Are any of us fooled by this camouflage? Do we know what our lawn care products are doing to our area? Rain washes many of these chemicals off the lawn. Last August the algae bloom near the Boston...
...into the fast lane on the information highway as it is built -- except that when Gates pulls alongside, others may be forced onto the shoulder. Within 10 years a handful of major firms are likely to dominate the three major areas of the digital world. One group will provide fiber-optic and satellite networks to carry entertainment, telephone service, video teleconferencing and other communications. Another will supply the programming. A third segment will furnish the software that controls the so-called magic box that consumers will use to access all these services...
...satellite-linked worldwide system, through a new firm called Iridium. While Iridium is designed for portable devices such as phones and hand-held computers, Teledesic is intended for fixed locations, such as offices. Both ventures will compete with the U.S. phone companies, which are busily laying cable for a fiber-optic system costing at least $100 billion that will carry video signals and data as well as voice communications. Both systems will also require a large number of satellites...
Fortunately, neighboring nerve cells that were not killed by the infection are often able to regenerate axons -- the finger-like connections that link nerves to muscle fiber. That's why the standard rehabilitative therapy for polio victims has been to stimulate nerve activity through heat and rigorous exercise, encouraging the healthy nerves to grow into the spaces left by their infected and damaged kin. "Use it or lose it" was the refrain with which therapists urged on a generation of polio kids...
...hooking up with Nextel, MCI becomes an instant force in the emerging market for wireless communications. While wireless will not make up the backbone of the information superhighway, whose basic construction material remains fiber-optic or coaxial cable, portable phones, along with pagers and beepers, will be powerful extensions of the electronic network. Companies ranging from AT&T and Motorola to Time Warner and Bell South are racing to develop their own new portable-telephone systems, which will one day compete with existing cellular networks and traditional wall-jack phones. The wireless market is expected to increase sixfold...