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...RECORDS 8,848 Altitude, in meters, at which the world's highest mobile phone call was made, on May 21, by climber Rod Baber from the summit of Mount Everest -30 Temperature, in degrees Celsius, when Baber made the call. The phone's batteries were taped to his body to ensure they would stay warm enough to work...
...time we got to our hotel there was no power to run the air-conditioning. We pressed on until we reached another lodge. This time there was power, but no cell-phone signal. A series of hiccups like this would have been par for the course in India a decade or so ago. But then came the outsourcing and high-tech booms and marketing campaigns like "Incredible India," and suddenly India's image had gone from pauper to looming global player...
...first appointed Knowles dean in 1991—has been regularly checking in on Knowles and expressed similar optimism. “Obviously, it’s wonderful and slightly miraculous that he’s come this far,” Rudenstine said in a phone interview yesterday. “And we’ll just keep hoping that he’ll continue to improve.” Knowles informed colleagues of his condition in a letter sent on April 17. “A few years ago,” Knowles wrote...
...phone interview yesterday, however, Law School Dean Elena Kagan said that the overall library budget will increase by 4.6 percent, or $615,000, and that determining where these extra funds are spent was Martin’s responsibility...
...kind of convinced myself that I didn’t really want to go to a school that didn’t seem to want me,” she said in a phone interview from Andover. But when she found out that she had gotten in, she said, she was “ecstatic”—“I definitely wanted...