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...chapters in the book that TIME can't even mention make the authors blush too when they are asked about them over a lunch. And some of the advice in the book is pretty conservative. They're against breast enhancement and watching too much television, argue virulently for fiber, and warn that using police-issue handcuffs during bondage "can lead to nerve and bone damage, sometimes irreparable." Sharkey can also draw and did all the diagrams in the book, which, as her off-page modesty would dictate, required getting people to pose wearing bathing suits. There's even a three...
Think "Italy," and you'll probably envision sun, pasta, amore, corruption--but not broadband. Think again. Led by Silvio Scaglia, 44, Italy is among the world leaders in a technology called "fiber to the home," which transmits 20 to 200 times as fast as the DSL and cable-broadband services common around the globe. That fiber is fast enough to deliver movies without any hiccups, and to send songs in seconds rather than minutes. Scaglia and his company, e.Biscom, are funneling feature films and sitcoms--plus conventional Web and phone services--to PCs and TVs in six major Italian cities...
...Fiber networks, notes analyst Michael Philpott of London research firm Ovum, are "future proof," meaning it's hard to imagine anything coming along that's faster. Scaglia, a telecommunications engineer and ex-CEO of Italian mobile-phone operator Omnitel, co-founded e.Biscom with Italian financier Francesco Micheli in 1999. A public stock offering in March 2000 raised $1.5 billion. The company now has about 145,000 fiber customers who connect through e.Biscom's FastWeb service, plus an additional 100,000 who access FastWeb's souped-up DSL service. While 145,000 fiber customers might not sound like...
judgment call Tony Blair believes "with every fiber of instinct and conviction I have" that he did the right thing in Iraq. But a poll of 3,028 people in Britain, France and Germany shows Europeans don't trust his judgment...
...street corner as continuously arrive there. On its longer side, it forms sweeping irregular stacks of white and black concrete and darkened glass, all of them resting on a clear-glass lobby. On its narrow end, it shoots those same interlocking volumes out in irregular square planes. Down below, fiber-optic light strips embedded in the pavement glide under the lobby's plate-glass wall and then across the ground floor in diagonals--lines of force that announce the edgy nerve paths of the place you're about to enter...