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Those of you who read last week's FM will know why I briefly considered changing the name of this column to "Ringing Burt's Bell." Since nothing really rung my bell this week, though, I decided to put off the name change for at least another week, after which time I will have forgotten all about...
Beginning May 14, the Silver Bullets will play more than 30 exhibition games against teams in the Northern League, a league for rookies at the bottom rung of the men's minor leagues...
...spinner in the Merrimack textile mill. Poulios, a city mailman for 34 years, has served six years on the city council. Today he is Lowell's mayor. "The Acre is the bottom of the social ladder," he says. "The last group that comes in is always on the bottom rung. But you can climb that ladder. You just have to prove your worth to the group ahead of you to be accepted...
Today, despite government decrees that guarantee equal rights for Indians and the new presidency in Guatemala of human-rights champion Ramiro de Leon Carpio, indigenous peoples like the Maya remain at the bottom rung of the political and economic ladder. In Chiapas, where the natives speak nine different languages, literacy rates are about 50%, compared with 88% for Mexico as a whole. Infant mortality among the Maya is 500 per 1,000 live births, 10 times as high as the national average. And 70% of the Indians in the countryside lack access to potable water...
...wants all roads to lead to its electronic superhighway," says Fritz Ringling, a telecommunications consultant at Network Dynamics in New York City. "It wants Johnny in Atlanta to play Sega video games with his cousin in Seattle; Mom to use the Universal card and have her purchases rung up on an NCR cash register that uses an AT&T fax to transmit credit-verification data; and Dad to send messages to his office while he's out on a sales call using his AT&T hand-held computer." AT&T also intends to be a main source for the ; pocket...