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...life is great economics ever relevant? Well, yes and no," Warsh writes. "Certainly not in any everyday sense, but overall, there may be an element of sexual style involved in theory choice...
Then, there are those of us who curse at modems that can transfer 9600 bits of data each second, having forgotten the good old days when 1/32nd of that speed was deemed unbelievably fast. Of course, as information transmission becomes increasingly important in everyday life, the need for better electronic communications drives high the demand for faster and even smarter modems...
...word "modem" was coined to spare the everyday user from having to refer to the device's more descriptive but longer name: modulator/ demodulator.Simply put, a modem takes analogsignals coming in over the phone line and converts them to digital 0's and 1's your computer can understand, and vice versa. Like the digital-to-analog converter (DAC) in your compact disc player, the modem is a link between the analog and digital worlds...
...Tough music's not in short supply just now, thanks to rap's street attitude, street come-ons, street aggression. Baerwald's songs, flinty and rock-rooted, aim higher. They are full of rage, melancholy and regret for fates that get mixed up and mangled in the course of everyday Armageddons...
Madelon Rosenfeld, a former criminal lawyer now working as an independent producer in New York City, was on the phone to Wilshire Court Productions in Los Angeles just hours after the World Trade Center bombing. Her proposal: How about a TV movie based on the heroic deeds performed by everyday folks caught in the disaster? On Saturday, one day after the explosion, she started meeting with people: two Brooklyn teachers whose kindergarten students were caught in the blast; a telephone repairman who set up a triage area for the injured; a mechanic who led six people to safety from...