Word: smarts
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...networks by 2008. More cable networks are in the works. One consortium plans to invest $500 million to lay the first transpacific cable directly linking China and the U.S., while another is planning a link between Southeast Asia and the U.S., bypassing Taiwan. Technology is also being developed for "smart" networks that could automatically allocate bandwidth where needed, making disaster recovery faster-but all operators would need to adopt...
...ticket items were singular sensations. Nobody made a sequel to Gone With the Wind, Casablanca or Ben-Hur. The industry didn't think in roman numerals until The Godfather, Part II in 1974. But with the triumph of special-effects fantasies like Star Wars, sequels became a smart way to print money. Now they are needed to turn bad years into good ones. The difference between the box-office slump of 2005 and the rebound last year can be attributed to one film: Pirates 2. That's why the trifecta of threequels is crucial to Hollywood's health...
...right outside the main U.S. base in Ramadi. Sittar makes sure his visitors are never without tea or a cigarette as he holds forth, talking about everything from guns to Isaac Newton. In a litany of the good and bad contributions of Western civilization, Sittar cites the English scientist ("smart" but "lazy") as one of the positive contributors; Hitler, he said, was unmitigatedly...
Urban, a former government concentrator in Quincy House, was always considered "very charismatic and smart" by his friends, said his freshman roommate Michael B. Jobbins...
...forwarded to gmail, and you can instruct gmail to respond as though you were using your FAS e-mail address, so no one need know that you’re slowly divorcing yourself from the world of academic and extracurricular obligations. Perhaps best of all, google’s smart-ad system transitions nicely to their e-mail server, providing hours of entertainment with invitations to try everything from crocodile repellent to ESPN.com, depending on your correspondents and their subject matter. All in all, gmail provides enough entertainment and privacy features to ensure that you never have to be bored...