Word: strandings
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...Many of these are connected, in chaotic ways. Moynihan focused on one dramatic strand of an overall pattern...
Moreover, bandwidth demand may not rise fast enough to meet the rapidly growing supply. According to Corning's manager for optical switches, David Charlton, in a few years a single strand of fiber will be able to handle all the voice traffic in the U.S. Sure, all sorts of new services will be available over the Web, and wireless appliances will be coming online that have to funnel through a land-based optical-fiber network at some point. But what if all this happens in five to seven years instead of two to three? Can somebody say B2B shakeout...
...Internet will undergo substantial alteration as optical technologies allow the transmission of many trillions of bits per second on each strand of the Internet's fiber-optic backbone network. The core of the network will remain optical, and the edges will use a mix of access technologies, ranging from radio and infrared to optical fiber and the old twisted-pair copper telephone lines. By then, the Internet will have been extended, by means of an interplanetary Internet backbone, to operate in outer space...
...somewhat artificial nature of this much anticipated milestone was underscored in two separate announcements last week. Writing in the journal Nature, a team of scientists working on the public project reported that they had finished decoding chromosome 21, the strand of DNA responsible for, among other things, Down syndrome. And a California company, DoubleTwist, Inc., said it had used data from the public genome project to pinpoint 65,000 individual genes, out of the 100,000 or so in each human cell...
...Russell cut her flowing, curly hair. (Would that Billy's dye job had done the same for Ally McBeal.) "It's something that a girl of that age, having gone through serious changes, would realistically do," says Abrams, who blames the drop-off on the cutting of a narrative strand instead: the co-ed protagonist left a long-term relationship at the start of the season. Whatever the problem, it hasn't been the dry-witted scripts--including a pitch-perfect Twilight Zone imitation--or the cast, which, with beautiful comic timing and depth of character...