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Adrian Tomine is a critically acclaimed cartoonist best known for his comic book series “Optic Nerve” and his soulful illustrations, which have appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and Rolling Stone. His graphic novel “Shortcomings” is listed among The New York Times’ “100 Notable Books of 2007.” Tomine, who dicussed “Shortcomings” at the Brattle Theatre yesterday, sat down with The Crimson to talk about education and inspiration, comic book aesthetics and culture, and representing race and gender...
...This new Romney loves talking about the same thing that the real Romney loves talking about: how to maximize economic theory, improve trade, write off capital expenditures and make more money for everyone. He will speak lovingly about circuit board innovations, and fiber optic technology, and health care policy - rather than gay marriage or abortion. He will speak about numbers and statistics in a way that connects with an audience, not because he is interesting, but because no one can doubt that he knows his stuff. In Michigan, it was a convincing act that brought him victory, along with...
...look at one overlooked aspect of a generation's worth of global growth: the extent to which New York City, London, and Hong Kong, three cities linked by a shared economic culture, have come to be both examples and explanations of globalization. Connected by long-haul jets and fiber-optic cable, and spaced neatly around the globe, the three cities have (by accident - nobody planned this) created a financial network that has been able to lubricate the global economy, and, critically, ease the entry into the modern world of China, the giant child of our century. Understand this network...
...does BPL work? The data signals that travel between the computer and outer cyberspace basically hitch a ride across the city's network of power lines. There's no interference because electrical current and digital 1s and 0s run at different frequencies. Manassas uses a fiber-optic network to carry data from its central Internet servers to the medium-voltage lines that run underground or overhead along residential streets. Special hardware clamped to every transformer helps the Internet signal jump to the low-voltage lines that disappear inside individual homes...
...Africa's only connection to the network that powers the Internet was a submarine cable running from Portugal down the west coast of Africa. Now the International Finance Corp., the private-sector arm of the World Bank Group, is investing up to $32.5 million in an undersea fiber-optic-cable project called the East African Submarine Cable System (EASSy), reaching approximately 250 million more people. Here are the parts of Africa that will be newly wired...