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...that point the plane was well past the go/no-go point, traveling at more than 210 m.p.h. A red light--perhaps a cascade of them--should have lit up the Concorde's flight-control panel. The flames coming from the two left engines suggest that they still could have been providing some power, but clearly not enough. A significant loss of thrust on the left side not only pushes the plane left (because the right engines are the only ones pushing forward) but also causes the dead engine wing to drop. As the Concorde struggled to gain altitude, its dead wing...
Perhaps tired of trying to pick sectors that will be Web winners, some investors and venture capitalists think they have found a way to bet the whole shebang--optical networking. That's the business of sending digital information via light waves rather than electronic signals, and it has emerged as the latest, greatest Internet investing trend. Which means that companies involved in any phase of optical networking have become hot stocks. Component makers, such as JDS Uniphase and Corning, and system designers, such as Juniper and Ciena, are each up more than 50% this year. Last Friday, despite a vicious...
What optical-networking companies do is provide the equipment--filters, amplifiers, converters--and systems to companies that are feverishly building out the Internet, such as Level 3, AT&T and Qwest. Although optical fibers that transmit light waves have been around since the 1970s, only in the past few years have companies like JDS Uniphase and Corning figured out how to send prodigious amounts of information through those fibers by dividing light waves into channels and then packing data into each channel. A single channel is like a light bulb going on and off 10 billion times a second, flashing...
...NIGHT LIGHT Here's a bit of practical magic: Huffy Sports' Twilight basketball ($25). A battery-powered bulb shines through the ball's translucent skin, so you can shoot hoops long after the sun goes down. It's easy to turn on and has a motion detector to shut it off automatically after five idle minutes. But what good is seeing the ball if you can't see the net? You might just have to spring for Huffy's Satellight lighted backboard...
FIRE THAT MEDIA PLANNER In light of last week's Concorde crash (with early indications placing blame on the tires), it seemed an excruciatingly bad time to run this full-page ad for the financial-services firm UBS in Friday's New York Times. Was someone not reading the headlines? Said UBS, which has pulled the ad: "We regret it." The Times had no comment...