Word: metropolitane
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...Skybridge upped its number of proposed satellites from 64 to 80 and plans to deliver zippy Net connections to the world's more populated areas by 2001. Then there's Angel Technologies, a privately held firm that envisions bouncing signals off a squadron of high-altitude planes circling above metropolitan areas. (Finding pilots may be a problem.) Angel execs say they'll be able to provide commercial Net access by 2000. Another scheme, from Sky Station, would employ blimps the size of football fields, tethered 14 miles above large cities. Last July, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) okayed the radio...
...pretty proud of them for expressing themselves in the way that they are doing." His observations lead him to believe that "these are children who have made their decision and come to [God] on their own." Certainly the throng at the post-See You rally at Wichita's Metropolitan Complex auditorium seems self-propelled, if adult-organized. A band plays Christian rock, and the teens let loose. An emcee asks how the See Yous went, and the answer is a prolonged roar. The kids bellow a tune with the unlikely lyrics of Romans 16: 20: "The God of peace will...
...elder Franks' relationship. The paper would not divulge the source of its story. But the prime suspect is Cor Suijk, a senior official at the Anne Frank Center in New York City and a source for German journalist Melissa Muller's new and well-timed biography Anne Frank (Metropolitan Books; 330 pages...
...Metropolitan Moving and StorageCorporation, 134 Massachusetts Ave., near KendallSquare, rents a five by seven by 10-foot room for$55 per month with a four month minimum...
Flipping through a glossy art book may be more fun than clicking through a CD-ROM, but search features and audio clips often make art discs more informative. Two new choices: the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Masterworks from the Collection ($40) gives a comprehensive, if staid, overview of the museum's massive collection, while Cinegram's Norman Rockwell--the Man and His Art disc ($70) offers an insightful and lively look at the illustrator...