Word: ricochet
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...born to the role: son of a Boston executive, prep-school boy, Harvard grad, a Navy ensign (like Mister Roberts' Pulver). From the start he was a master of comic timing, of the buttoned-down double take. That flummoxed look paired nicely with his ricochet vocal rhythms--he'd race through phrases, then put a twist on the crucial word. Unlike most other Hollywood actors, who relax and seem to bathe in their star quality, Lemmon worked hard. He let you read his reading of the character. His acting was less about being than about doing...
...contraption? I puzzled over its presence for months, asking anyone willing to look up. I finally got my answer from a city worker. The box was a small relay station designed to send signals to and from wireless modems. It had landed outside my bedroom courtesy of Metricom's Ricochet network. The California-based company is blanketing more than a dozen U.S. cities with pole-top radio transceivers strategically positioned every five to 10 blocks so we can send e-mail, visit websites and otherwise reach out and touch the Internet--wirelessly--anytime, anyplace...
...much larger than the data and voice streams that existing wireless networks were designed to handle. "The ability to send that much data over wireless lines is up in the air," notes consumer electronics analyst Jay Srivatsa of Gartner Group Dataquest. Higher-speed networks, such as the 128-kbps Ricochet from Metricom now being tested and the 384K TDMA network due out next summer, could help resolve some of these issues...
...28th minute, senior midfielder Meredith Stewart fired a solid shot on net that bounced off the left post. The ricochet came right to Costello, but her attempt on goal was smothered by the sprawled-out Columbia keeper, Janine Ierardi...
...started about two years ago, when the buzz from European antibiotech protest groups began to ricochet throughout the Net, reaching the community groups that were springing up across the U.S. Many were galvanized by proposed FDA regulations that would have allowed food certified as "organic" to contain genetically modified ingredients--an effort shouted down by angry consumers. Meanwhile, Greenpeace began to target U.S. companies such as Gerber, which quickly renounced the use of transgenic ingredients, and Kellogg's, which has yet to do so. With so-called Frankenfoods making headlines, several other companies cut back on biotech: McDonald's forswore...