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...cannot restore perfect hearing. In particularly difficult conditions, many people find assistive listening and alerting devices helpful. In her determination not to be sidelined by her profound hearing loss, New Yorker Ruth Bernstein, 67, has become a gadget guru. The lamps in her living room, office and bedroom are wired to flash when the phone rings or the doorbell buzzes. Her telephone has a receiver with a powerful amplifier. Though theaters are required to lend listening systems to hard-of-hearing customers, Bernstein has purchased her own infrared unit. She's also bought a personal fm unit for lectures...
Nobody knows the vicissitudes of technology better than Lucent, which had to negotiate a $6.5 billion loan package last month to avoid a cash crunch. Lucent was first a beneficiary and then a victim of the race to wire the U.S. with the speed-of-light data pipes known as broadband. And now it has company in its misery, as broadband carnage has spread from phone companies like AT&T and WorldCom to fiber makers like Corning to optical-systems builders like Nortel Networks to components makers like JDS Uniphase and networking companies like Cisco Systems...
...ever flew aboard the Mir space station, you'd know how important it was to urinate on the barbed wire surrounding the launchpad before you went up. If you were especially thorough, you might want to douse the wheels of the bus that carried...
...mocked the belief that preventing the supply of contraception would stop unmarried couples from having sex, and criticized the views of many Republicans, including Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, whom she described as being "held up by duct tape and bailing wire...
Being an Innovator is a high-wire act, however, and some of our rebels have had to make compromises--or worse. Joseph Park, founder of the defiantly free delivery service Kozmo (September), had to impose a fee of $1.99 on small orders to make ends meet. And it wasn't enough for Steve Stanford's Icebox.com (September) to have the coolest cartoons on the Web. The site slammed shut last month after running out of cash...