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...three months after it happened, signs of the spill remain. Walking areas on the first four floors of Building D are covered with half-inch thick plywood, with 18 planks of wood alone stretching over large parts of the first floor. The floor of the building's main elevator also has a plywood covering...
...humans behind the scenes succeeded for the most part in bringing the little fellas to life, and their animated delivery kept Aristophanes' occasionally dense prose from getting too thick. Most puppeteers took responsibility for more than one part, proving the program's claim that the Onion Weavers truly are "Rennaisance" men and women...
Next, digestive juices dissolve the thick wall of the oocysts, triggering a growth cycle that ends in a reproductive orgy. Tiny protozoans attach themselves to intestinal walls and begin to mature. While there, scientists speculate, they probably exude some irritating toxin -- just the thing to cause the host organism to expel the oocysts produced by the adult organisms through diarrhea and vomiting. "A sick person will produce 100 million oocysts a day," marvels Cliver...
...create their own interactive networks, either by themselves or in partnership with cable companies. Bell Atlantic is scheduled to begin offering video on demand to 300 homes in northern Virginia this summer. U.S. West has announced plans to deploy enough fiber-optic lines and coaxial cable (the pencil-thick wire used by cable systems) across 14 states to deliver "video dial tones" to 13 million households starting next year...
...entire enterprise is fiber. Fiber-optic cable, made up of hair-thin strands of glass so pure you could see through a window of it that | was 70 miles thick, is the most perfect transmitter of information ever invented. A single strand of fiber could, in theory, carry the entire nation's radio and telephone traffic and still have room for more. As it is deployed today, fiber uses less than 1% of its theoretical capacity, or bandwidth, as it's called in the trade. Even so, it can carry 250,000 times as much data as a standard copper...