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Heavens, what a marvelous people we are! Or I mean you--what a marvelous people you are. Or us. Or are we an it? Maybe them. I'm not sure. But the American People: they're champs. Just aces. Absolutely top of the line. Every last person of them, the...
If we're very, very lucky, it happens. A miracle of nature. After waiting patiently for what seems years, we notice a slow emergence. The cocoon breaks and out of the depths of cynical garage-rock and tortured, pre-millenial angst there climbs a thing of radiant beauty--a wonder...
It all began in 1985 while Barry Bertiger, an engineer at Motorola, was vacationing in the Bahamas with his wife Karen. She wondered aloud why she couldn't call home from their secluded getaway on Green Turtle Cay. Good question, thought her spouse. By 1988, Bertiger and two colleagues had...
The arrangement with existing cellular dealers turns out to be a serendipitous marriage of marketing and technology. Without resellers, customers would be few, and without cell technology, service would be limited. At first Iridium planned a purist, sky-to-ground approach that would have cut out the local cellular-network...
The moment was a chance to gaze backward, to 1961, to 1927, to the baseball heroes of happier times. And the game paused, with a leisurely euphoria, as fans of baseball and America took a good long look. But as McGwire hugged Sammy Sosa, lifting the Chicago Cub toward the...