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...satellite. As long as you live in or near a city, it's more likely than not that you can already pick up local channels via satellite. DISH offers them to 60% of Americans; DirecTV does slightly better, at 67%. (As for your chances of picking up the satellite signal, that's more like 99%, unless you live in a canyon or in the shadows of skyscrapers...
...Then there's the issue of quality. Every pixel that crosses your satellite dish starts and ends its life as a digital signal. A lot of cable channels are still transmitted in lower-quality analog; you usually have to pay extra for digital channels. As someone who has spent the past year hooked up to both DirecTV and AT&T cable, I can testify that shows on satellite are better-looking than the same broadcasts on cable, even on digital channels. (Then again, AT&T has yet to seed my block with fiber optics...
...that it was ending a voyage longer than most fishing trips. But this was Chittagong, South Asia's premier hub for pirates, gunrunners and smugglers. When the dockworkers saw the Mecca anchoring on a sandbank three kilometers out to sea on the night of Dec. 21, it was a signal to all not to ask questions...
...election no matter what the outcome. That put him at odds with his own Bharatiya Janata Party and Omar's National Conference, which is a partner in Vajpayee's ruling coalition. Vajpayee even declined to campaign in the state?which Kashmiris took not as a slight but as a signal that the Prime Minister saw the elections as part of a healing process, not an opportunity for political gain...
...Falaika incident, preceded by what now appears to have been a suicide attack last weekend on an oil tanker off the coast of Yemen, and followed by an attempted attack on a Humvee carrying U.S. troops in Kuwait a day later, may be an ominous signal that al-Qaeda intends to make the most of America's growing confrontation with Iraq. An obviously shaken Kuwaiti government launched a sweep and arrested a number of suspected accomplices, declaring the attacks "against Kuwait's national interests" and vowing to take "all necessary measures...