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...weeks before embarking on my journey westward, I'd been in the audience at the Fillmore East when Timothy Leary issued his psychedelic rallying cry, "Turn on, tune in, drop out!" Like someone swept away by religious fervor, I heard the call and followed. But after turning on and tuning in, I wasn't sure what to do next, so I set off to find the answer in the place where dropping out was invented...
...copper has a typical download speed of 56 kilobits--or 56,000 bits--per second, at which rate it would take nearly 10 minutes to download a three-minute song. By contrast, a modem connected to a TV cable that feeds into a fiber-optic loop could claim that tune in under a minute. Yet even today only about 6% of U.S. households have cable modems or digital subscriber lines, which carry compressed data over copper wires at broadband speed. But that hasn't stopped carriers from blanketing the country with high-bandwidth networks...
Biggs has missed his share of calls over the years. He knows it and advises individuals to tune out Wall Street's noise and stick with diversified stock funds long term. But if you're looking for something more timely, he says, Treasury bonds and classic defensive stocks like food and health care...
...Crimson will have three more weeks to fine-tune their talent before Ivy League competition gets under way the first week in April...
...freshmen do have a distinct advantage in the support that they receive both on and off the field from an accomplished group of veterans. Allard will rotate between her large selection of players to fine-tune her lineup before the Ivy season begins...