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Streets run counterclockwise in a donut formation resembling a question mark. Streets are numbered from A to ZZX. Monorail (493-7190; platform accessible via shuttle M-F 9-5pm, Sa 9am-4am), at the intersection of John F. Kennedy St. and Mass. Ave. The shuttle to the platform is inside the Information Booth. Bang on the window and ask for the monorail. If the workers pretend they don’t know what you’re talking about, consider them insane and dangerous. The Pakistani consulate is located at Tommy’s House of Pizza. Bike rental...
...spent $1.27 billion to gain control of Premiere, his flagship pay-TV service. It was one risk too many. Since the start of 1999, KirchPayTV is thought to have lost at least $1.7 billion. Demand is sluggish; nine out of 10 German households get 30 channels via cable or satellite dishes, making pay-TV an expensive luxury...
...House Energy and Commerce Committee and federal agents probing Enron's fall are skipping over the accounting schemes and other questionable business practices--including a bizarre sex angle: a scheme to offer pornography via the Internet. The investigators instead have zeroed in on what officials from Enron and Andersen did and did not do once they realized that the debts were mounting, that the stock price was falling and that the last people to learn of the looming reckoning were going to be millions of Enron shareholders. Watkins' two letters provide the road map for their inquiry...
...McMasters worries that any push to eliminate mammograms from the medical regimen could have deadly results. "The difference between treating women with cancer found via mammogram and cancers they've found via self-exam is tremendous. If you're depending only on self-exams or clinical exams, you're relying on palpation (feeling a lump with your fingers) to find tumors. And the problem with that is by the time a tumor palpable it's often spread to lymph nodes, and therefore more likely to be fatal...
...first thing to get used to with XM is all the new channels. While you still get regular broadcast stations via antenna, there are 100 XM channels; about a third are commercial free. These stations are transmitted from satellites in geosynchronous orbit, so in theory you could listen to the same station from Seattle to Miami. While the XM offerings include radio versions of network fare like CNBC, ESPN and MTV, there are dozens of original music stations created by XM's staff...