Word: signalized
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...cure smallpox or getting people to pay to talk to others via computer. Cometa's goal is to take a technology that is exploding in every major city in the U.S., Europe and the Pacific Rim--grass-roots wireless Internet service that is as accessible as any radio signal, and often as free--and figure out a way to make you pay for it. In the long run, Cometa aims to be nothing less than the Windows of business...
...technology is based was filed back in 1942 by actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil.) Wi-Fi uses a frequency long set aside by the FCC for quirky radio devices--the downside being that microwave ovens and some brands of cordless phone can play havoc with the signal...
...barbiturate cocktail. Within minutes, they drifted into a coma, then died. The couple had already arranged for a double coffin. Since the couple's death, Jennifer Stokes' mother and sister have demanded that Dignitas be shut down. British M.P.s have called for an investigation. "It's a terrible signal, for patients and doctors, and for Switzerland," says Oswald Oelz, chief of internal medicine at Triemli Hospital in Zurich. Minelli scoffs at the outcry. "All this is bullshit," he says. "The bottom line is, we should all have the freedom to end our own lives if we are convinced our suffering...
...will come to the position that a U.N. role is needed." But that may be wishful thinking; there is little or no evidence that Washington is moving in that direction - or ever will. Reaching compromise on the U.N.'s role won't be easy, so France is trying to signal its goodwill to the U.S. in other forms - notably in the planning for this June's meeting of the G-8, with France presiding in Evian. One impartial western diplomat involved in that process says the French have been "bending over backward" to accommodate American wishes for the event. They...
...women. Dozens of men rose and put their shoes on, forming a virtual wall to block the armed Marines, who appeared unaware of the danger. The U.S. soldiers did not understand Arabic, but they did not need to - the enraged faces, the shouting and the fierce gesticulations were sufficient signal that they were not wanted. "Irjau!" "Go Back!" the demonstrators screamed, as they were restrained by a few cooler-headed men from within their ranks...