Word: hubs
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...historic town area is a treat in itself. Grab a turkey sandwich at Henry's (right near the ferry dock) and wander the cobblestone streets which wind narrow ways dotted with wooden houses with widows' walks. Stop for coffee at Cafe Espresso on Main Street or dodge into The Hub, the town's newsstand, to grab a copy of an island newspaper...
...Wilson and more than two dozen otherradiation experts interviewed this week sayHarvard was not a main hub for the radiationexperiments of the 1940s and 1950s...
...researcher at the Rand Corp. named Paul Baran came up with a bizarre solution to this Strangelovian puzzle. He designed a computer- communications network that had no hub, no central switching station, no governing authority, and that assumed that the links connecting any city to any other were totally unreliable. Baran's system was the antithesis of the orderly, efficient phone network; it was more like an electronic post office designed by a madman. In Baran's scheme, each message was cut into tiny strips and stuffed into electronic envelopes, called packets, each marked with the address of the sender...
...billion business and growing by double digits annually, some 20% in 1992 alone. While the U.S. was reporting a trade deficit last year, Miami's port district recorded a surplus of more than $6 billion. Miami International Airport, now the nation's second largest international passenger and cargo hub, is poised to overtake New York City's Kennedy International Airport by 1995-96. It is already the world's fifth busiest cargo airport. Ships sail from Biscayne Bay to virtually every port in the world, from Barranquilla to Bombay...
Despite repeated attempts to wean Clinton from micromanagement, he remains at the hub of a dozen or more spokes, acting as his own chief of staff and still seeing as many as 30 people a day. He relies on not one top deputy but a team of four or five aides, and he turns for advice on almost any subject to practically anyone within shouting range. The centralized approach tends to reduce accountability, lengthen response time and leave Clinton trying to do too many things at once. Two weeks ago, early one morning, McLarty had to insist that the President...