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SHOVE THIS! Fiber-optic colonoscopes are better than barium enemas in detecting colon cancer...
...Internet will undergo substantial alteration as optical technologies allow the transmission of many trillions of bits per second on each strand of the Internet's fiber-optic backbone network. The core of the network will remain optical, and the edges will use a mix of access technologies, ranging from radio and infrared to optical fiber and the old twisted-pair copper telephone lines. By then, the Internet will have been extended, by means of an interplanetary Internet backbone, to operate in outer space...
...youngsters are gone forever. A man must develop a veneer of callousness that lets him consider such things dispassionately, but he can never escape a recognition of the fact that back home the news brings anguish and suffering to families all over the country...War demands real toughness of fiber--not only in the soldiers [who] must endure, but in the homes that must sacrifice their best...
Made of pretty tough fiber himself, Eisenhower would note later that the hardest part of his job in World War II came on Sundays, which he set aside for the mournful chore of signing thousands of condolence letters to the families of G.I.s killed in the European theater. (It was a chore we'll be reminded of again next month, when the National D-Day Museum opens in New Orleans.) To soothe the pain of the bureaucratic task of signing these starkly official government letters--casualty certificates, really--Ike turned to the classics of war poetry, from Homer to Siegfried...
...mayor are separating 8. Sara Jane, who won a delay in her bomb-conspiracy trial 9. Clinton feels yours 10. She, in Cherbourg 11. With it 22. Concrete strengthener 24. Sunshine State city 25. Clinton is seeking to keep his __ license 26. Wallace's state: Abbr. 27. Fiber-glass critter now being seen all over Cincinnati 28. B.O. sign 29. Famous first baseman? 30. A long time 31. Sacramento newspaper 34. Ex-Gov who was found guilty in Baton Rouge 39. Slips in print 40. Prabhakaran is one 41. He's with Clinton, on China anyway 42. Jesse Jackson once...