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...strategy is not without its pitfalls, however. The NAB's efficiency will depend on how fast it can process home directory requests and relay them back to the requester over the network...
...Tetla has an intimate relationship with its northern neighbor. Nearly 40% of town residents work in the U.S., many leaving families behind. They send back money for satellite-TV dishes, and each year the exiles return for the village fiesta, paying for food, music and shirts for the annual relay race. ``Without them it would be hard to have a fiesta,'' says Reveriano Garcia Garcia, 58, whose five children work as waiters in Queens. The New Yorkers contributed $1,000 for a new basketball court, now the village centerpiece...
Also going to the ECAC's is the Crimson's 4x400 relay team, which finished second in a time of 3:55.55. Co-captain Shireen Boulos, freshmen Athena Jones and Allison Goldkamp, and Williams garnered the eight points awarded for a second-place finish. Brown's team came in first with a time...
...elementary school kids who seem to have been wired since birth. During the first month of her course, teacher Fulton, who designed the class two years ago, exhorts her students to conquer the Net before they do anything else. They become comfortable using BBSs (bulletin-board systems), IRC (Internet Relay Chat), MUDs (multiple-user dungeons), Usenet newsgroups and such World Wide Web browsers as Mosaic and Gopher. But Fulton also engages them in discussions of related social and political issues such as privacy, universal access and the role of governmental regulation...
This steamy place doesn't exist in the physical world. It is a ``channel'' on Internet Relay Chat (called IRC among netheads). IRC consists of a series of real-time discussions on the Internet. Think of it as CB radio that you type instead of speak. Any number can play. And lots...