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...come within 15 feet of the facilities' entrances. Adding to the Justices' difficulties is the current Court's disparate interests. "This Court has been a very strong advocate of free speech, and has also upheld the right to abortion," says Sanders. The Justices will have to decide what sort of distance, if any, protects the differing rights of patients, doctors and protesters. And, as they all know, you can't please everyone all the time; the decision, due out by summer, could herald new lawsuits and reignite simmering tensions at clinics nationwide. One thing's for sure: Both...
Cisco's principal products are routers--souped-up computers that sort the streams of information packets that whiz throughout the Internet. As it happened, routers turned out to be the indispensable heavy artillery of the digital revolution. As the Internet has grown, so too have the demands for bigger, faster, better routers. Today, Cisco manufactures gigabit routers that can handle a billion bits of information a second. Coming soon, as bandwidth requirements increase and Internet traffic doubles every 100 days--and as we consumers increasingly upload and download video, voice, music and data--Cisco will be ready with terabit (trillion...
...officials began to sort through the details of the case--and, according to some, to look for reasons not to send Elian back--a U.S. immigration officer stationed in Cuba met with Elian's father Juan Miguel at his Cardenas home (without Cuban officials present). They met again on New Year's Eve in the Havana home of a United Nations diplomat. The latter location was deliberate: U.S. officials were worried that Juan Miguel might be manipulated by Castro and wanted a location that was unlikely to be bugged. The goal of the inquisition was to determine just how close...
...network standards-and-practice executives; the contestants are even followed to the bathroom. Everyone at Millionaire, including the electricians, had to sign two FCC forms, and the writers, who sit in a shredder-filled room with a combination lock that is regularly changed, signed nondisclosure agreements of a sort rarely seen outside secrecy-happy Silicon Valley. The writers have their own kitchen and bathroom and, at first, were told they would have to clean them themselves because the cleaning people would not be allowed in. Worse yet, they can never meet Philbin...
...trickeries of some sort existed on all the popular TV quizzes, not just Twenty-One. Myth has it that the accusations of rigging and the subsequent investigations drove the shows off the air. In truth, Question, Challenge and Twenty-One had all been canceled by the fall of 1958 because of plummeting ratings. When the full extent of the quiz-show tampering became clear during a 1959 congressional hearing, President Dwight Eisenhower called the deception "a terrible thing to do to the American public...