Word: phoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mark Gastineau: phone planet earth...
Puhak, WHRB's rock director, "called back and said Sanders was not available, but Paine Hall was," said Werlin. "We said thanks, but no. That was the last conversation I had with her until I got her phone message saying 'urgent' last week...
Employing a technique called distributed processing, Arjen Lenstra, a Dutch-born computer scientist working as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago, broke the task into smaller pieces and dispatched them over ordinary phone lines to computers at universities and corporations. The results were then compiled by minicomputers at a Digital Equipment lab in Palo Alto, Calif. The success of the ad hoc network, one of the largest ever assembled, raises problems for cryptographers and intelligence agencies, whose code solutions are often based on the prime factors of long, hard-to-solve integers. But it certainly demonstrates the enormous...
Sontag doesn't own a TV, though she did rent one last month to please a houseguest. (Regarding it with the look of a bird that has found a meteor plunked in her nest, she shrugs, "I haven't turned it on yet.") She also has no phone-answering machine, no word processor and, in most of her two-bedroom New York City duplex, no air conditioning. The coolest spot in the place is likely to be the sun-room that opens onto a small terrace. That was where she spent much of the past summer, with its Egyptian heat...
...cater to women scattered across the farm belt, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Ind., lets students earn degrees through independent study, conferring with professors by phone and mail. The program accounts for more than half the college's 950 students. Many of the women are retooling for off-the-farm careers to supplement their family income. For Teresa Miller, 40, who is working toward a degree in social work, studying on campus would have meant commuting 100 miles a day. "This way," she says, "I can pick up the kids, do errands on the farm...