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...spokesman for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), of which GSAS is a part, did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment...
...fact, the technology has already been demonstrated in the Chinese capital. New York-based Paul Notzold recently traveled to Beijing, where he used L.A.S.E.R. Tag to create a kind of performance art, encouraging pedestrians to send text messages to a central phone hooked up to his laptop. The text messages were then projected onto the Millennium Art Museum. "I was tentative about putting up unsanctioned messages on buildings, because of the government," Notzold says. "There were your typical radio shout-outs, and there were also some statements that could be kind of activist protest statements." The event took place without...
...have been so expensive that the airline would have had to charge passengers to use it. "Nobody cares if it's not free," says Neeleman. "It's so irritating to go into a hot spot and have to pay." JetBlue and other airlines learned that lesson with seat-back phones. That service was discontinued because of lack of interest from passengers unwilling to pay several dollars for one in-flight phone call. The ground-to-air spectrum used for those in-flight calls came up for bid in July 2006, and JetBlue's subsidiary, LiveTV, purchased a slice from...
Close to the end of John McCain's most recent swing through New Hampshire this week, reporters and the candidate took their usual places at the back of the "Straight Talk Express." McCain was doing phone interviews, voice raised a bit over the roar of the bus. It took us a while to realize we were not moving. "We're off schedule," explained an aide. McCain did a sort of fake lunge toward his staffer - a full body, sarcastic version of "why-I-oughta" - before she continued, "We're ahead of schedule." McCain, whose exaggerated gestures sometimes suggest...
...citizens of Iowa and New Hampshire don't have that luxury. Campaign fliers and phone solicitations have been inundating them for months, and anyone looking to fuel up the family sedan risks running into a glad-handing candidate at the gas station. But that just makes them the perfect subjects for the first installment of our TIME election-year survey of the American electorate...