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...have its advantages. If you're interested in high-speed Web surfing, cable modems are significantly cheaper than any satellite-based alternative. DirecTV offers a speedy two-way satellite Internet service called DirecWay, but it costs nearly $600 for installation, plus $60 a month for service. And when a technician visits, according to the J.D. Power study, cable customers are more likely to be pleased with the result. Last year the dish guys were ahead in customer satisfaction; they need to try harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: To Dish or Not to Dish | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...have its advantages. If you're interested in high-speed Web surfing, cable modems are significantly cheaper than any satellite-based alternative. DirecTV offers a speedy two-way satellite Internet service called DirecWay, but it costs nearly $600 for installation, plus $60 a month for service. And when a technician visits, according to the J.D. Power study, cable customers are more likely to be pleased with the result. Last year the dish guys were ahead in customer satisfaction; they need to try harder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Satellite TV Right for You? | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

Ginny Shear, 52, of LeRoy, N.Y., a quality-assurance technician for Eastman Kodak, devotes a lot of her spare time to serving as the executive director of the Women's Motorcyclist Foundation, a nonprofit organization that educates the public about motorcycling. In 1996 the group started the Pony Express Relay, a national run to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Three such relays have been held; the last, in 2000, drew about 700 men and women and raised $450,000. The next event, scheduled for July, will have participants joining the route at various points from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Saddling Up | 10/21/2002 | See Source »

...When You’re Young,” “or maybe it’s a piss-poor idea…we’ll have to wait and see.” On Adams’ gentle directive, a surly stage technician repositioned a microphone so that Adams’ fast-tapping foot could act as provisional percussion. The effect was brilliant, recalling the simple vitality and soulfulness of old Delta blues recordings...

Author: By D. ROBERT Okada, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Solo Gold | 10/17/2002 | See Source »

...admire the broad Han River as it flows past Seoul toward the sea and watch as Hyeong Ku-yun absently baits another line. A 30-something technician at a local hospital, he comes regularly after work to fish in the Han now that it's been cleaned up. "Sure there are fish here," he assures me. "Tons of mullet and carp. The mullet make excellent hwae." That's Korean for sashimi. I'm a bit incredulous that one would dare eat raw fish from the Han River. I find it difficult to exorcise memories of the Han's less wholesome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seoul's Green Revolution | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

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