Word: network
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...recent years, Sigma Chi has had similar trouble when trying to organize its annual fundraiser for the Children's Miracle Network, identified on the group's Web site as the "nationally recommended philanthropy of Sigma...
Jacob Chudnovsky '01, co-coordinator of the Filmmakers' Network for Harvard-Radcliffe Television, also attended...
...currently limited to a relatively slow 9.6 kbps, the European telecom industry should receive a huge boost next year with the arrival of an enhanced GSM system: General Packet Radio Service, or GPRS, will boost transmission speeds to 150 kbps--faster than a high-speed ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) computer line. Consolidating their lead in the global race in mobile telephony, most European operators will begin to add the feature next year...
...drafted blueprints for a revolutionary new system that would blanket the heavens with communications satellites--77 in all--bounce a cellular call from one to another, then beam the data stream downward 420 miles to one of 12 earth stations where the call would enter the terrestrial telephone network. Motorola dubbed the system--and the company it spun off to build and operate it--Iridium, after the 77th element on the periodic table. (After trimming the number of satellites required to 66, Motorola wisely chose not to go with the name of the corresponding element, the practically unpronounceable Dysprosium...
Like many of you, I frequently give my roommate advice that I either have difficulty in following or that seems to backfire in my own life. I worked extensively this summer with a support network for battered women--so I do have experience in dealing with difficult relationships-but this column isn't about the clinical counseling answers you can get for free, along with a strong dose of aspirin...