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...absurd to fly back and forth like that. Symbolically, it sends out the wrong signal," said Jorgo Riss, director of Greenpeace E.U. "In this day and age they could have come up with something more imaginative. They could have held a virtual signing ceremony, over the Internet, which would have combined modern technologies with an environment-friendly policy...
...speed. My IMs and BlackBerry messages went through seamlessly to my colleagues even while I was zipping in the air. But we did run into dead spots. For about 15 minutes we were flying along the edge of a cell tower that did not have a strong enough signal to connect, so my e-mails sat in cyberspace limbo. Once the signal became strong enough, the mail went through. For trouble-shooting, don't expect flight attendants to turn into tech support. Dewayne Cook, one of the cheery staff on my test flight, referred me to the card...
...used to send text messages to mobile phones. (Sorry, Gmail and other e-mail services won't work.) BlackBerry handsets will also work just as they do on land. The radios onboard the plane monitor the 100 cell towers around the U.S., looking for the one with the strongest signal. As the plane flies, it leaves one cell tower and connects to another with a better signal. In theory, JetBlue could use the same technology to allow passengers to use their mobile phones in flight, but the airline has mercifully decided against it. (Not so in Europe, where regulators approved...
...computer to read the message. The whole process took about 10 minutes, so it was tense—but also pretty funny.” She added that she had little time to celebrate her success, because she had a midterm the next day. Galbreth, a native of Signal Mountain, Tenn., said she discovered her interest in Medieval literature during her time at Harvard. “I liked that the Middle Ages felt foreign,” she said. “Reading the texts can be a bit like traveling because you step into a different world...
...selection of a new dean should signal an end to a period of uncertainty that has followed Skocpol’s resignation announcement nine months ago, and allow FAS to move forward on key initiatives such as the reviews of the administration’s structure that Smith, enlisting the help of professional consultants, announced in November...