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...lagged in cell-phone technology for the better part of this decade. While two-way text messaging over cell phones has for years been a standard service from London to Lisbon, and the chat method of choice for teenagers in Tokyo, only a tiny number of users in the U.S. have the feature. U.S. wireless carriers are on the cusp of offering Internet access; overseas, it's already happening. Cell phones as wireless modems for laptops? Works great--in Europe...
...studied architecture in Milan in the early '30s. He never designed a real building, but he was to develop an exquisite sense of architectural convention, of stylistic parody, that shows in the dream skyscrapers and iron galleries of his later cityscapes. In 1941 he made his way to Lisbon and from there to the U.S. With difficulty, and with a "slightly fake" passport that he doctored with his own rubber stamp, he reached Miami in 1942, and his definitive expatriation began...
...time-pressured FM crucible revives memories of a more leisurely paced spring break. Last Friday, four friends and I disembarked in Lisbon, without any Portuguese language skills to speak of. A day later, a fine bartender murmured something about time changing for the reason his club wasn t booming. So back we wound, without even a thought. It was only two days later, when trying to catch a train to a nearby town that we noticed that all of the trains were leaving two hours later. Hmmm. And then, like the final scene in >=The Usual Suspects,=wrong,=that clock...
...ROUTE] Los Angeles-Lisbon...
...understand what it means to make your home truly millennium ready, you have to visit the Eckharts of rural Lisbon, Ohio. Bruce Eckhart, 44, an automation technician for Daimler-Chrysler, his wife Diane, 41, and their 11-year-old daughter Danielle are models of apocalyptic pluck. It's not just the gas-powered home generator they bought in case of massive power outages. It's not the year's supply of dehydrated food in their basement or their stockpiles of canned chicken chow mein. It's the water bed. The collapse of public utilities is one of the big worries...