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...central switching station, no governing authority, and that assumed that the links connecting any city to any other were totally unreliable. Baran's system was the antithesis of the orderly, efficient phone network; it was more like an electronic post office designed by a madman. In Baran's scheme, each message was cut into tiny strips and stuffed into electronic envelopes, called packets, each marked with the address of the sender and the intended receiver. The packets were then released like so much confetti into the web of interconnected computers, where they were tossed back and forth over high-speed...
...centers in America. As more mills were built, their owners recruited young, single New England farm girls as laborers. When the "mill girls," as they were called, rebelled against the long hours and low wages, they were replaced by Irishmen fleeing the potato famine of the 1840s. In a scheme to rid downtown Lowell of the unwanted Irish workers, the Yankee mill owners donated an acre of land southwest of the city's center. The neighborhood became a gateway for generations of immigrants who went to Lowell in search of work and a better life. On wages of 75 cents...
...everyone is convinced of Miami's grand scheme for the future. The trade sector is, to a large extent, based on glorified mom-and-pop businesses offering low-paying service jobs. "Miami is not the capital of Latin America," German Consul General Klaus Sommer says dismissively. "The Germans have billions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile. You don't need an agent sitting in Miami...
...subsidy accord is crucial to the rescue operation, for private companies will not cut back unless their state-owned competitors are brought to heel. Europe's private steelmakers have warily agreed -- in principle only -- to a $1.1 billion shutdown scheme that the E.C. and member states plan to sweeten with $3.1 billion more for unemployment benefits and retraining. After last week's fiasco, officials pleaded for more flexibility from Rome. But either way, the lesson is clear: the longer the delay, the more painful the cure...
...Tokyo vehemently deny it, the Prime Minister has quietly finalized a plan to end Japan's long-standing ban on foreign rice imports and replace the virtual prohibition with tariffs, as required under the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Hosokawa may unveil the scheme as soon as next month, the deadline for the end of the current GATT talks. Apprehensive Japanese rice farmers last week furiously protested the arrival of the Tanjung Pinang, an Indonesian freighter carrying Thai rice shipments imported under a special one-time arrangement to make up for a bad harvest this...