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...begin rolling out DSL service to consumers in Atlanta; Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Raleigh, N.C.; and four other Southeastern cities before the end of this year. Many of these services will offer less than full-throttle speeds and cost $60 or more a month, but they still spell relief from today's World Wide Wait...
...Today many of the farms soaking up the subsidy are owned by the very entities Newell sought to exclude--corporations. These farms are the size of cities and are run not from farmhouses but from skyscrapers. Some are owned by foreign interests, which are more likely to reside in Munich or Vienna than in rural America...
During those 32 years, however, something has changed. None of the handful of satellites orbiting the globe in 1966 was hit by a Leonid. But today the planet is circled by a bewildering variety of spacecraft--about 600 in all--that have become indispensable to modern society: relaying phone calls, e-mail and faxes; monitoring hurricanes, terrorist activities and crop yields. A collision with a meteor could damage or disable any one of them. That is why NASA, the Air Force and the Russian space agency are directing a wholesale reorientation of their fleets of orbiting spacecraft...
That potential seems almost limitless today. In principle, stem cells could be used for a vast array of profitable--and lifesaving--therapies. They could, in theory, be coaxed into forming heart cells, for example, and injected to patch up heart muscle damaged by cardiovascular disease. They might be turned into neurons to replace brain cells destroyed by Alzheimer's. They may someday provide new pancreatic cells to pump insulin into the bloodstream of diabetics...
...sort of support only the government can provide. "I'm convinced that there will be therapies based on these cells in my lifetime," says Wisconsin's Thomson. "But when that occurs will depend heavily on whether there is public involvement." Given the chances of overturning the funding ban in today's political climate, it is more likely to be later than earlier...