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Last week I decided to see how well they answered the call. I had planned to upgrade my old 28.8-kbps modem anyway, so I tried Actiontec's $130 56K call-waiting modem first. After a painless setup, I was online and ready for calls. This particular night, unfortunately, there...
Next I tried Callwave, a "free" service that--big surprise--isn't. Like all the other software-only services, it requires you to sign up for a little-known option provided by most local phone companies called call forward on busy. This means that if your phone is busy, an...
The tension between Thoreau the naturalist and Thoreau the missionary for nature's wonders invigorates nearly every page of Wild Fruits. He portrays his subjects with keen clarity, but he also wants his Concord neighbors to wake up to the error of their ways: "We cultivate imported shrubs in our...
Farrell is far from the first ex-City Ballet dancer to knock the rust of routine off Balanchine's ballets. Edward Villella's marvelous Miami City Ballet recently gave a performance of Prodigal Son at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark that all but exploded off the stage...
In his story "Will We Run Out Of Gas?" [SPECIAL REPORT, Nov. 8], Mark Hertsgaard presented an encouraging future for our prospects of driving more environmentally friendly automobiles. Hybrid gasoline-electric cars with impressive fuel efficiency are already on our doorstep, and his prediction that hydrogen-powered fuel-cell cars...