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...know this because, in keeping with a morbid convention in media coverage of executions, the condemned person's final meal has already been broadcast to the world by the wire services. And soon it will find its way onto what may be the most macabre culinary site on the Web: The Texas Department of Criminal Justice?s Final Meal Requests page...
...companies point to what they call the "metro" business as a huge untapped market. After the national optical-fiber backbone is in place, the task will be to wire the cities and local networks, and eventually get that fast fiber to your neighborhood, and finally replace the copper wires and coaxial cable that go into your home. The trouble is, the metro market doesn't really exist today--and the technology that will make it possible, if not necessarily profitable, is only now being invented...
Today at the convention Woods' targets are balloons and eggs suspended on wires above the V.H.A.'s target range, and he destroys them with ease and confidence. Still, he prefers aiming at live prairie dogs. "We have competitions," he says, "to see who can flip one up onto the barbed-wire fence and hang it there...
...that far from the truth. As David Nasaw's superb new biography, The Chief (Houghton Mifflin; 687 pages; $35), makes compellingly clear, Hearst was the most powerful, the most self-centered and the richest media baron in the world. He controlled newspapers that reached 20 million readers, a news wire service, magazines, newsreels and feature-film companies and radio stations. Each enterprise was tied to the others, creating "synergy" before anyone had heard the word. Hearst said he was serving the nation, but what he was really doing was serving himself...
...will not be arrested without showing that I don't believe I should be arrested," she said, and pointed down to a length of wire coiled around the pole she held...