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...conjecture, but really? today's reality." He said the company is breaking even in its high-speed Internet business and expects to have more than 20 percent of AT&T's cable customers signed up for cable modem service by 2005. It has firm plans to improve its balance sheet with cost-cutting and price hikes, and has already slashed 10,000 jobs in the past year (with 3,000 more on the way). And although they?re still anemic by industry standards, profits are up slightly from last year?s figures - no mean feat in this barren economic season...
...days” come more and more often during the summer, as the overnight-camp and dorm-room markets constitute our equivalent of the Christmas retail season. It’s not difficult to imagine myself as one of the young men sifting through racks of twin-extra-long sheets; I distinctly remember taking it as a good omen that my sheet pattern bore the name “Harvard.” Now, aside from the “Cambridge” quilt pattern, omens of any kind are few and far between in the bedding department...
...David Oakley making children. Torres, a 20-year-old Texan, was sentenced in 1999 for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. This year, at a parole-violation hearing, he admitted impregnating two other teens. ("I make mistakes," he said.) Wisconsinite Oakley, 34, has a 15-year rap sheet that includes theft and witness intimidation. In the meantime, he has sired nine children (one of whom he abused) by four women...
...some prodding from state-induced conservation measures - and some big rate hikes - usage is down 12 percent since last June and the state is running a surplus. Three new power plants have added 1,400 megawatts to the grid, but conservation has added 5,570 more to the balance sheet. And nobody's starving of economic sluggishness...
Scientists and theologians squabble about the beginning of time and the universe [SPACE, June 25], but regardless of the fine points of their arguments, they are still singing from the same sheet of music: there was a beginning, and there will be an end. I believe that the universe is actually infinite in time and space. Our Big Bang was exactly that--ours. We will never discover the oldest body in the universe because we will never be able to sense its existence. It is safe to assume that there were other Big Bangs, and more will occur. LAWRENCE...