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What is the sound of 100,000 feet stomping? Like an avalanche rumble, like T. rexes jogging, like a subway roaring through your bedroom. You hear that sound a lot -- you feel it in the fillings of your teeth -- at Denver's Mile High Stadium. The thunder begins in the dollar seats in left center, then spreads like the flu until the place seems ready to implode...
...backbone of AT&T's communacopia strategy is the company's 2 billion- circuit-mile telephone grid. First built in 1879, the network has been continually upgraded. In the past 10 years, AT&T has replaced most of its old- fashioned copper-cable network with advanced fiber-optic wires, which give the grid a massive carrying capacity, or bandwidth. AT&T's long-distance system handles 150 million phone calls and data transmissions a day. It has the capacity to carry at least twice as much traffic, at no greater cost...
...state senate committee on health and welfare, advocates tuition waivers and stipends for students going into primary-care medicine, if they agree to practice for a while in doctor-short rural areas. Bailey likens the current system to "training all the horses in the world to run a mile and a quarter and wondering why we can't find one to plow...
...more into bargain basements and blue light specials, take the Red Line to Downtown Crossing and visit Filene's Basement, the mother of all bargain basements. There, you will make your way through mile-long racks of designer clothes, all priced to please...
SPEED: 7-min mile...