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...cross-subsidy system is going to disappear, putting fierce upward pressure on bills for local phone services. Regional phone companies stand to lose about $3.3 billion in revenues that they received from AT&T's long-distance tolls when they were still under Ma Bell's roof. Currently, about 37? from each dollar in revenues from long-distance charges is plowed back into the local companies...
When it came to the roof of Harvard's Science Center yesterday, the operational phrase was, "When it rains, it pours...
...perished after one momentous jolt in 1939, and two quakes in the past decade each left more than 2,000 dead. One reason for the terrible toll: the walls of peasant homes are typically made of rough stones held together with a mixture of mud and straw, while their roofs consist of layers of soil as much as four feet thick. When the earth rumbles, the rocks come loose and the roof collapses. Anyone inside is buried alive...
Toyota showed several new models, including the SV-3, its first sports car since the 2000 GT in 1967. The company's FX1 car has glassed-in roof pillars and windshield wipers hidden under a sliding shutter. The doors tilt and glide out. It also has a voice-command system similar to Nissan's. At low speeds, half the engine shuts down to conserve fuel. Toyota was also showing off the TAC3, a sporty, four-wheel-drive car in which the driver sits in the middle, with passengers behind...
...Roof will never be an enjoyable play to watch because it assaults too many brutal problems haunting people. But if the audience realizes this and allows itself to be swept into the setting, the characters, and their relationships, then the play will have a devastating effect, forcing us to confront our own problems, and our difficulties in expressing our thoughts. This particular production, superbly interpreted by the cast, plays off of the audience's attention, and as we get consumed in their actions, they in turn become more and more tense and brutal, relaxing their grip only when the lights...