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...inch flat screen four feet in front of them. In a few minutes, the brothers will meet their half-sister and nephew for the first time ever - or more accurately, lay eyes on and speak to their kin in North Korea for the first time, via a fiber optic video cable, installed as part of a video family reunion program between the two Koreas this week...
Although nothing like the radical transformation Charlie Sheen’s famous “Wild Thing” character experienced in the classic baseball movie “Major League,” the history of Harvard baseball players undergoing mid-career optic improvement is more extensive than one would think...
...graduation. There were just too many pressures and too few role models. He needed to work long hours after school to make money. His family was supportive, but his father and two of his siblings had dropped out before him and were making decent money burying fiber-optic cable. It would have been all too easy for him to join them...
...Primitive though Morse may be, the world may want to keep it alive, if only as a backup when global communications networks crash-as they did spectacularly on Dec. 26 when an earthquake off Taiwan's coast damaged seven undersea fiber-optic cables that handle some 90% of phone calls and data traffic in the region. Millions of homes and businesses across Asia were left without Internet access, e-mail and international phone connections. Financial markets were interrupted. And those lucky enough to connect to overseas websites experienced exasperatingly sluggish data-transfer speeds. While most services have been at least...
...those living in small spaces or overcrowded houses, what's better than invisible furniture? Multiuse, invisible furniture. The Magino acrylic stool from the U+ Studio Collection, designed by Karim Rashid, also serves as a magazine rack. And from Kartell, Optic storage cubes, designed by Patrick Jouin, can be used both for storage and as tables...