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...companies point to what they call the "metro" business as a huge untapped market. After the national optical-fiber backbone is in place, the task will be to wire the cities and local networks, and eventually get that fast fiber to your neighborhood, and finally replace the copper wires and coaxial cable that go into your home. The trouble is, the metro market doesn't really exist today--and the technology that will make it possible, if not necessarily profitable, is only now being invented...
After four days of covering the GOP convention in Philadelphia, I was tired of eating on the run, wolfing down well-meaning but ultimately unsatisfying room-service sandwiches while the folks I covered gorged themselves in drunken, bacchanalian orgies of food. Every morning in the Philly Inquirer, Metro reporters detailed the high flyers' most recent repasts, presumably fighting off hunger pangs as the fat cats fed and preened themselves...
Phil Hand, who was the metro editor at Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle, says he was relieved of his post and sent to work in the composing room after complaining that the management was putting too many demands on his department...
...seemed to me as the years progressed that we got much softer," says Hand, the metro editor. "You just felt that there were somehow pressures [in this direction] brought up in the front offices...
...pain my shoes were causing, sweating as the long-sleeved collar shirt ran rough on my neck, soaked through. Such is the end of a D.C. intern's day. When commuting from an unpaid workplace to my expensive housing, often the best way to go is on foot, since Metro money can add up to fund dinner later...