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...Ding's prosperity is shared with just about everyone living in Yiwu, China's very own North Pole. Thousands of vendors offer whirling Christmas trees with glowing fiber-optic needles, chicken-feather angel wings and that traditional favorite without which no holiday living room is complete: the plastic statuette of Santa playing electric guitar on the moon. All this might have confused Chinese consumers a few years ago, but Yiwu is feeding a ravenous demand by mainland consumers who think that the height of contemporary urbanity is to festoon the living room in December. "I'd always heard of Christmas...
...retina is a thin, multi-layered membrane at the back of the eye that converts light and images into neural signals that reach the brain through the optic nerve. Macular degeneration, a disturbance of the center of the retina, is the leading cause of blindness in people over 55 years...
...offices and homes fast enough. But the dream has finally come true, thanks to a series of technical advances, most notably a piece of networking gear called a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM, pronounced dee slam). This refrigerator-sized box deftly flips video data from the speedy fiber-optic networks that form the backbone of the phone system to the "final mile" of copper wires. DSLAMs have been around since 1997, but until two years ago they couldn't handle high-speed, high-density video traffic. Now, thanks partly to improved and cheaper chips, they run internally about...
...added that the current optic fibers along which the weak light impulses are sent would only allow for two locations a maximum of 60 miles apart to communicate securely. Myers said this barrier could be overcome either with improved optic wiring, or by finding a way to send the weak light to a satellite...
...most important ingredients is a frisson of Asian American spice. Born in Korea and raised in the States from the age of eight - Korean Americans call such immigrants "1.5"s - Kim's comix stand virtually alone in their depiction of Asian American lives. Only Adriane Tomine, author of "Optic Nerve" and obviously a major influence on Kim, has attempted to explore the subject...