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...plans to call friends in the U.S. the same way - instead of dialing his NTL fixed-line telephone. "I'm just trying to find a way to keep down the costs," says Tuttle. His life could obviously be simplified if all his communications came through a single pipe, and that's what tomorrow's telecom companies are hoping to offer. As digital technology enables more customers to bypass traditional paid services, telecoms are scrambling to introduce services that combine telephone, broadband and subscription television into a single package that can be piped into every home - and eventually to mobile devices...
...using economic weapons-particularly, energy as a weapon-RAO UES bought a power station in the Transdniester Republic (a breakaway Moldova province, very much under Moscow's influence), and then cut off Moldova from this key power supplier, until Moldova met its terms. Transneft (Russia's state-owned oil pipe monopoly), blocked oil flowing from Kazakhstann to Lithuania, because Russia coveted Lithuania's oil refinery. The latest such case is abruptly raising natural gas prices fourfold for Ukraine...
...said. “Pretty consistently there was work going on throughout the day, but it wasn’t anything major... [The] fire alarm shenanigans were the first real technical problems I’ve experienced, although there is always a very loud banging in a pipe in the basement when I have class there...
...stratification, and the bursting of that Harvard bubble that leaves us all feeling like we’ve been living in a weird mix between a young-adult daycare and an Old Boy’s Club when we graduate. I sometimes get the urge to pull out a pipe and sit in a red leather chair discussing Kant with my cronies. (And I don’t even smoke…or know what cronies really are.) I recognize, however, the need to appreciate Harvard for all that it is—an institution overflowing with history and traditions...
...remarkably expressive Subtle. His facial contortions and impassioned eye and hand gestures carry his performance, although his longer monologues are sometimes tiring and overdone. Travierso’s best scenes are those that showcase his skillful use of his body—and his mime-like rendition of pipe-smoking provides an especially humorous aside...