Word: teleporting
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...excellent movies about fantastical little worlds that exist just below the surface of our reality will be playing simultaneously in theaters this weekend. Monsters, Inc. the new movie by the Pixar computer animation studio, is about a colony of monsters who teleport themselves into children’s closets and use their screams for energy—a sort of primal, New Economy Where the Wild Things Are. And of course, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, which opens Friday, is about an 11-year-old who discovers his magical heritage and ships off to a school...
...Upper East Side who wrap themselves in a Seinfeld show-like all--white cocoon or impoverished blacks in inner-city neighborhoods who know few whites besides cops, teachers and social workers. To some readers, leaving the story of those kinds of people out of the series seemed to teleport the problem to somewhere out there in the hinterlands, away from the paper's own racially troubled backyard...
...bucks purchases that has sent both his and the company's stock soaring. It was the perfect meeting of a CEO with an unlimited imagination and a corporation with an unlimited checkbook. In January 1998, just two months after Armstrong took the helm, the company paid $11 billion for Teleport, a company that operates fiber-optic networks in New York and other cities. Six months later, AT&T purchased Tele-Communications Inc., then the second largest cable company in the U.S., for $53.5 billion. Acquiring MediaOne, and adding its 5 million subscribers to TCI's 12 million households, would finally...
...sign for "Hey, I remembered flowers, but I'm still a dork." If you arrive 10 minutes late and out of breath, this is the International Sign for "I live in the Quad, and you live in the River. On a Saturday night I might as well try to teleport as find a shuttle." If you arrive and she says, "I just have to finish some e-mail before we go," this is the verbal International Sign...
...Comcast stock, have spent billions building up a collection of programming and telecom services. The list includes 57% of QVC (home shopping); a 68.8% piece of E! Entertainment (programming); the N.B.A.'s Philadelphia 76ers and the N.H.L.'s Flyers (more programming); a 20% stake in Teleport Communications Group (business telephone service); and a 15% position in Sprint Spectrum (cellular telephones...