Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think MIT is going to have to be responsible in dealing with the neighborhood in this issue," Hoicka said...
Cable Internet service is expanding in a haphazard fashion, and when it will come to your neighborhood is anyone's guess. Meanwhile, demand is building as more Americans get spoiled by fast Web access at work. They would love to have the same thing at home--for online investing, say, or helping the kids find video clips of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches for their homework...
...through DSL phone service, which enables your existing phone line to carry data at rates as fast as 1.5 million BPS. That's only half the maximum of many cable services, but DSL gives you "dedicated" bandwidth. Cable systems make you share bandwidth with other subscribers in your neighborhood, and things may bog down if you all go online after dinner. As with cable, DSL lets you stay "always on" the Internet since a single digital line can handle voice and data calls simultaneously...
...Leonid showers are alike, however. As Donald Yeomans, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, notes, "Most of the particles are following closely behind the parent comet. That's where the gathering is thickest, and it's only when the comet is in Earth's neighborhood that we get intense showers or storms...
DIED. BOB TROW, 72, Pittsburgh radio funnyman who went on to people Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for three decades as Robert Troll, Bob Dog and himself; of a heart attack; in New Alexandria...