NET-HAPPENINGS Digest - 1 Mar 1999 - Special issue (#1999-177) (fwd)

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Topics in this special issue:

1. MISC> CIA warns of Y2K problems in Russia, China
2. K12> [I.T.] Updated: Educator Web Site lists
3. K12> Searchable Innovative Teaching!
4. RESOUR> [WebSiteDaily] Library of Congress combines multimedia glitz with
the powerof the Web
5. K12> Millions of Students Expected to Link to Titanic Discoverer in
Amazon/B Ballard
6. K12> Applications Being Accepted for the 1999 Educators Institute
7. MISC> [WebSiteDaily] Webgrrls.com
8. MISC> Flat-rate Net access still alive, for now

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:34:37 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> CIA warns of Y2K problems in Russia, China

From: nikst [mailto:nikst@glasnet.ru]
Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 6:13 PM

CIA warns of Y2K problems in Russia, China

WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - The year 2000 computer bug problem could
cause havoc in some countries, ranging from defective nuclear reactors and
early warning systems in Russia to banking glitches in China, the CIA said
on Wednesday.

Gen. John Gordon, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told
a Senate Armed Services Committee panel while the United States was
well-equipped to deal with year 2000 computer problems, many foreign
countries were not.

``Foreign countries trail the United States in addressing Y2K problems by
at least several months and in many cases much longer,'' he said.

The millennium problem arises because many older computers record dates
using only the last two digits of the year. If left uncorrected, such
systems could treat the year 2000 as the year 1900, generating errors or
system crashes next Jan. 1.

Countries least prepared included Russia, China and many states in Eastern
Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Russia, Gordon said, had a talented
pool of programmers but lacked the time, organisation and funding to
address the issue.

He predicted Russia could have some difficulty with the early warning
systems it uses to monitor foreign missile launches. A Defence Department
delegation visited Moscow last week to address this problem.

Gordon said the CIA was very ``attentive'' to the possibility that foreign
strategic missile systems, particularly in Russia and China, could be hit
by year 2000 problems.

For example, liquid-fuelled missiles stored in silos needed to be monitored
for fuel leaks and other defects.

However, Gordon stressed the CIA did not foresee the automatic launch of
Chinese or Russian missiles, or nuclear weapons going off due to computer
problems.

``In fact we currently do not see a danger of unauthorised or inadvertent
launch of ballistic missiles from any country due to Y2K problems,'' he
said.

The CIA was also monitoring Soviet-designed nuclear plants in Central and
Eastern Europe, which could have some difficulty.

Problems included a loss of off-site power because of glitches on the power
grid. In addition, computer-related problems could affect internal
components or sensors crucial to the operation of nuclear plants.

``For example, a valve with a digital controller designed to automatically
adjust the flow of cooling water, could potentially malfunction because the
digital controller does not recognise the year 00,'' said the general.

Russia's Gazprom Natural Gas pipeline was also susceptible to possible Y2K
outages and Russia's ability to transport and export natural gas could be
affected, he added.

Gordon said European awareness of the Y2K problem was uneven and largely
focused on modifying computer systems for the European Monetary Union
conversion launched this year.

``This was done, in many cases, by postponing coming to grips with Y2K
problems,'' he said.

Asia's economic problems had hampered Y2K remediation efforts of most of
the Asia-Pacific countries and China's late start in dealing with the issue
could lead to failures in key sectors such as telecommunications, power and
banking.

He told the committee the CIA was aggressively attacking the Y2K issue,
stressing the United States had to be able to respond quickly to any
``unforeseen problem that will jump up and bite us on New Year's Day.''

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:35:06 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> [I.T.] Updated: Educator Web Site lists

From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi
[mailto:tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 4:58 AM
To: innovative-teaching@egroups.com
Subject: [I.T.] Updated: Educator Web Site lists

Dear I.T. Buddies,

I have tried my best to collect some useful productive web sites for
educators, teachers and students, so that they can make use of it in their
classroom activities. Thanks, :-)Arun

Educator Web Sites: A Review
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a.) http://edweb.gsn.org
The Web site is full of materials for the Internet educators so called as
Web Educators, here you can also find the several lists to subscribe.
The New Updated web site is http://edweb.gsn.org/lists.html

b.) MathSkills Newsletter
http://www.hill.ac.uk/mathskills/newsletters
The mathskills Newsletter No. 4 July 1997
http://www.hull.ac.uk/mathskills/newsletters/issue4/index.html
http://www.hull.ac.uk/mathskills/
This is the main web site for the MathSkills Discipline Network.

c.) Oregon Public Education Network
O.P.E.N. Cearinghouse web site
http://www.open.k12.or.us
The OPEN Clearinghouse, in partnership with the Oregon Association of
Education Service Districts, is bringing exciting WEB-based information
and state-wide instructional support to oregon educators.It is also the
goal to minimize the difficulties that teachers face when using the
Internet and world Wide Web and give them the information they need to
excel in a changing environment.

d.) National Regional Educational Laboratories
http://192.220.254.5/national
The Regional Educational Laboratories are educational research and
development organizations supported by contracts with the U.S. Education
Department, Office of Educational Research and Improvement(OERI). This web
site is the central organizer for their Internat-based Educational R&D
Network. Just click on a Region of the context-sensitive map to branch to
that region's Wen Server.

e.) Appalachia Educational Laboratories
http://www.ael.org
Appalachia Regional Educational Laboratory( AEL), is a non-profit,
regionally oriented education research, development, and services
institution. Its mission is to link the knowledge from research with
the wisdom from practice to improve teaching and learning. AELworks
closely with schools, school districts, and states to develop. test,
and refine practical products and processes that address needs expressed
by local educators. Resources thus developed are then available to others
working on similar problems.

f.) Mid-Continental Regional Educational Lab.
http://www.mcrel.org
The Mid-continent Regional Educational Laboratory(McREL) is a non-profit
organization dedicated to improving the quality of education for all
students. As one of 10 Regional Educational Laboratories (REL's) sponsored
by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement(OERI) of the U.S
Department of education, McREL provides federally funded services to a
seven state region.

g.) North central Regional Educational Lab.
http://www.nwrel.org
The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory's mission is to improve
educational results for children, youth, and adults by providing research
and development assistance in delivering equitable, high quality
educational programs. NWREL's primary service area is the Northwest states
of Alaska, Idaho, Montana,Oregon, and Washington.

h.)National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
http://www.nctm.org

i.) WelCome to the SpaceNews Online
http://www.spacenews.com, there is also the chat online
for the spacenews programme.
The independent, authoritative newsweekly of the International space
community, Space News, invites all who are interested in the Space
Sciences , to scan the top news, read newsmaker interviews, download
compelling images and text files, engage in bulletin board discussions and
link to other great space sites and news sources.

j.) GlOBAL-LEARN
http://www.globalearn.org
GlobaLearn, Inc. is a non-profit company that was incorporated in August
1993 to prepare children for global citizenship and to develop in them the
skills, awareness, and determination necessary to become responsible
stewards of the earth.

k.) Computers in the Classroom
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/emc300/index.html
This is a Online Course about The Computer in the Classroom. This course
is designed to help Internet educators, teachers and students, so that
they become more familiar with technology. And also how will they will be
expected to use it in the classroom.
http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/emc300/wwwboard/ --- This site is the EMC
300 Conferencing and Help Board.

Regards
Arun Kumar Tripathi
tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:35:12 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Searchable Innovative Teaching!

From: Walter McKenzie [mailto:mrmck@staffnet.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 7:45 AM

Innovative Teaching <I.T.> is updated for March and is now fully searchable
via the Pinpoint Site Search Tool. Now go directly to the recommended links
that you need without sifting through categories! Surf to
http://www.interserf.net/mcken/teacher.htm

Also, this week's I.T. Newsletter will present quality educational links on
Women's History. Subscribe today and receive the next issue this coming
Friday conventiently in your mailbox! The archives can be found at
http://www.egroups.com/list/innovative-teaching/
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Mr. Walter McKenzie
mrmck@staffnet.com
ICQ # 4266882

*Educational Consultant
http://www.interserf.net/mcken/consult.htm

*Innovative Teaching
http://www.interserf.net/mcken/teacher.htm

*Innovative Teaching Listserv
http://www.egroups.com/list/innovative-teaching/

*Smith Station Elementary
http://www.spotsylvania.k12.va.us/sses/index.htm
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Some men see things as they are and say "Why"?
I see things that never were and say "Why Not"?
-RFK
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:35:18 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com>
Subject: RESOUR> [WebSiteDaily] Library of Congress combines multimedia glitz
with the powerof the Web

From: John Walker [mailto:jwalker@networx.on.ca]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 6:17 AM
To: websitedaily@egroups.com
Subject: [WebSiteDaily] Library of Congress combines multimedia glitz
with the powerof the Web

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Library of Congress combines multimedia glitz with the power of the Web

February 25, 1999
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/computing/trageser/990223trageser.html

This is what the multimedia and the World Wide Web were supposed to
be about. Not blasting space aliens. Not shopping online for
trinkets. Not placing an electronic bet on the Lakers. Not leering at
pictures of naked cheerleaders.

The Web and the high-resolution multimedia technology that
accompanied it were both originally intended to further education --
to harness the power of computers to bring the knowledge of the
world's greatest minds to anyone who would learn.

And every once in awhile, mixed in with all the dross that seems to
dominate both the online and CD-ROM worlds these days, comes a new
application that reminds us of the idealism once behind the computer
revolution.

"The Library of Congress: Eyes of the Nation" is one of the best
(and least expensive) examples of what true multimedia learning
should be. Not in the same ballpark, perhaps, as the CD-ROM version
of the Encyclopedia Britannica or complete collection of National
Geographic, it is nevertheless one of the best single-disc reference
tools out there -- not least because, as an official production of
the library, it is fully integrated with the library's own Web site.

As probably intended, "Eyes of the Nation" continues the ongoing
redefinition of what a library is -- reforming it from a large,
brick temple full of books into a educational tool accessible from
anywhere and by anyone.

And what a tool. For most of its existence, the Library of Congress
-- one of the great libraries in history, and, thanks to its
placement in the modern era, certainly the largest collection of
human knowledge yet -- was inaccessible to most of those to whom it
belonged. Unless you lived near or visited Washington, D.C., you were
not able to visit the library, to conduct research from its vast
collections, to attend the seminars and lectures in its stately
halls.

Computer technolgoy is still no substitute for standing in the
central hall surrounded by history, but it does go a long way in
making the collection available to a heck of a lot more people than
the 2 million lucky enough to visit each year.

To be sure, one need not have a copy of "Eyes of the Nation" in
order to take advantage of the Library of Congress' tremendous online
resources. Anyone can simply point their browser to
http://www.loc.gov and bring huge swaths of the library's collection
into their home.

But while a well-organized site, the Library of Congress' online
collection remains unfathomably and intimidatingly vast.

What the library (and title co-producers The History Channel and
SouthPeak Interactive) has given us in "Eyes of the Nation" is a
starting point, a focus, a way to navigate the riches of the
library. Obviously, there is no way a single CD-ROM or even DVD can
capture more than a tiny sliver of the Library of Congress'
collection, which runs into the tens of millions of volumes.

Instead, "Eyes" provides a broad overview with representative
samples -- historic photos and reproductions of documents, paintings
and artifacts (more than 3,000 on the CD-ROM version). You can browse
the library's collection via a timeline, or visit some of the special
collections, or see some of the current exhibits.

The interface is intuitive -- point your mouse and click on what you
want to see. From nearly every menu, you can access the searchable
databases on the library's Internet site, which is adding new
materials from its collection daily.

All of which adds up to this: With this disc and Internet access,
you have available in your den or office more learning than was held
in the entire library of Alexandria, access to more knowledge than
the greatest scholars of the Renaissance had at the great Vatican
library, more information than Leonardo da Vinci could have dreamt of.

Kind of makes television seem boring, doesn't it?

REFERENCE

"The Library of Congress: Eyes of the Nation"
SouthPeak Interactive (919) 677-4499, Macintosh, Windows 95/98; $39.95
CD-ROM, $44.95 DVD-ROM

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:35:29 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Millions of Students Expected to Link to Titanic Discoverer in
Amazon/B Ballard

From: K-12 Educators Interested in Educational Administration
[mailto:K12ADMIN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Bonnie Bracey
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 12:30 PM
To: K12ADMIN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Millions of Students Expected to Link to Titanic Discoverer in
Amazon/B Ballard

http://www.eds.com/jason

HERNDON, Va., Feb. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- From March 1 to March 12, more than
two million students across the United States are predicted to link up with
one of the twentieth century's best known explorers, Titanic discoverer Dr.
Robert Ballard, on the banks of the Amazon River in Peru. Broadcasting
live from his generator-fueled camp in the steamy jungle, Ballard will
reach out to students via the JASON Project, one of the most sophisticated
electronic networks in the world. In real time, they'll move together
through the darkness of the towering rainforest and the cacophony of more
than 30 million species of insects, looking for secrets about the world's
most diverse biosphere.

With the help of EDS, an information technology company and founding
sponsor
of the project, the JASON Project has pioneered real-time interactive
distance learning, pushing the technology envelope to find new ways to
engage students in scientific exploration. The Peruvian exploration is the
tenth JASON Project expedition led by the charismatic Dr. Ballard, who
after ten years and 500 live broadcasts has become a polished TV
professional. And each expedition has drawn a larger and larger virtual
team of explorers via a growing maze of satellite, Internet, and statewide
classroom networks.

In the first JASON Project expedition in 1989, Ballard broadcast from the
Mediterranean Sea where he explored ancient sunken trading vessels on the
ocean floor with "JASON," a robotic submersible vehicle similar to the one
he used to explore the Titanic. In that expedition, 200,000 students were
electronically linked to Ballard from primary interactive network sites in
the U.S. and Canada where they could communicate with Ballard and
participate in the ocean floor exploration in real time.

Since 1989, seven million students have electronically joined Ballard as
the
JASON Project explored other scientifically fascinating locations such as
the Galapagos Islands, the hot lava slopes of Mt. Kilauea in Hawaii, and
the coral reefs of Belize. And with each expedition EDS, and a growing
list of other technology corporations, have pioneered new applications of
interactive technology to entice the computer generation to come along.

In Belize, one of the world's preeminent authorities on global warming took
fellow JASON explorers diving with him among the coral reefs, answering
questions from the kids back home through the microphone in his plastic,
waterproof helmet. On Mt. Kilauea, Hawaii, EDS laid an Olympics-caliber
network of cable and microwave networks across the lava fields in order to
travel with Ballard as he helicoptered from one lava eruption to another.
In
1996, with the advent of the Internet into schools, EDS developed the first
camera-installed underwater World Wide Web site for the Florida Keys
exploration. This year, students will get a constantly changing view of the
Peruvian rainforest via hand-held Web cams sending live images directly to
http://www.eds.com/jason

Are the kids learning a lot of science? The curriculum that supports JASON
is rated highly by teachers. The JASON Web site won the NII award for best
educational Web site. For Ballard, the JASON Foundation and the corporate
sponsors who back the expedition, that outcome is no less important than
the
search itself. For them, this is an exploration about turning kids on to
the fun and intrigue of science as much as raising science test scores.
Corporate technology providers like EDS are counting on JASON not only to
teach, but also to motivate these JASON explorers to pursue careers that
will help them meet their growing high-tech workforce needs.

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:35:57 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com>
Subject: K12> Applications Being Accepted for the 1999 Educators Institute

From: K-12 Educators Interested in Educational Administration
[mailto:K12ADMIN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Bonnie Bracey
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 6:06 PM
To: K12ADMIN@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Applications Being Accepted for the 1999 Educators Institute

The Library of Congress and the National Digital Library announce
the third Educators Institute, which will be held in Washington, DC
from July 18-23, 1999. The summer institute is the cornerstone of
the American Memory Fellows Program, and it focuses on using
primary source materials in education. Applications are now being
accepted and must be postmarked by March 6, 1999.

American Memory is an on-line digital library
<http://memory.loc.gov/>, which is comprised of unique and rare
documents, photographs, sound recordings, motion pictures, maps,
and other media that tell the story of American history and culture.
Its 42 collections provide materials that educators have found
helpful to compliment history, social studies, and language arts
curricula. Also on-line at the Library of Congress Web site is The
Learning Page <http://learning.loc.gov/>, which is designed to
provide navigational and contextual help to teachers and students
getting started with primary sources and the American Memory
collections.

The Educators Institute is a six-day hands-on workshop in which
50 participants work in both large and small groups and share ideas
on using primary sources in the curriculum. They learn on-line
search skills, background and context for using archival collections
in the classroom, and strategies for integrating web-based material
into teaching. Each two-person team will be responsible for
developing an original lesson plan, unit, or activity that draws
upon the Library of Congress American Memory collections. In
addition, each participant will be required to participate in both a
pre-conference and a post-conference discussion listserv. Each
participant will receive a $1,000 honorarium and round-trip
transportation to Washington, DC.

Middle and high school teachers, librarians, media specialists,
technology coordinators, and curriculum specialists are invited to
apply for this summer institute. Applications will be accepted from
two-person teams of educators who demonstrate:

a creative, thoughful project idea;
experience in humanities teaching;
ability to work in an on-line environment;
collaborative work habits;
professional leadership.

To apply, download an application package from The Learning
Page <http://learning.loc.gov/> Or, call Karen Billett (202/707-3847)
to request a paper copy. For more information, please call Susan
Veccia, Project Manager, Educational Services (202/707-6151).

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:36:03 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> [WebSiteDaily] Webgrrls.com

From: aps@cgim.com [mailto:aps@cgim.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 5:12 PM
To: websitedaily@egroups.com
Subject: [WebSiteDaily] Webgrrls.com

Webgrrls.com
http://www.webgrrls.com/

The first women's tech-networking group meeting
both online and offline around the world.
Webgrrls International provides a forum for women in
or interested in new media and technology to network,
exchange job and business leads, form strategic
alliances, mentor and teach, intern and learn the skills
we need to succeed in an increasingly technical
workplace and world.

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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 07:35:23 -0600
From: Gleason Sackman <gleason@rrnet.com>
Subject: MISC> Flat-rate Net access still alive, for now

From: John Walker [mailto:jwalker@networx.on.ca]
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 7:17 AM

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Flat-rate Net access still alive, for now

By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
February 25, 1999, 6 p.m. PT
URL: http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,32955,00.html

Are the days of flat-rate local calls to Internet service providers
drawing to an end?

The answer appears to be no, despite federal regulators' decision
today that a call to an ISP should be treated as long distance.

The Federal Communication Commission ruled that an otherwise local
call to an Internet service provider should be treated as an
interstate transmission, since much of the traffic ultimately goes
out onto the Net at large.

But the commissioners were quick to say that the decision would only
affect contracts between individual telephone companies--and not the
prices paid by individual Internet users.

"[Our decision] doesn't affect the way consumers get dialup access
to the Internet," said FCC chairman William Kennard during today's
meeting. "Nothing we're doing here should be construed as regulating
the Internet."

Kennard went further in a later statement on the issue, reaffirming
the Commission's intention to shield Net users from regulation that
might raise prices or dramatically change the way companies charge
for Net access.

"Those employing scare tactics have also suggested that the FCC is
going to change the way consumers pay for dial-up access to the
Internet. Again, nothing could be further from the truth," Kennard
said. "We are not regulating the Internet and we will not do so as
long as I am chairman."

Warning signs?

But not everyone is as confident as the FCC's chairman.

One commissioner, joined by a coalition of consumer groups, is
warning that the FCC's decision may have inadvertently opened the
door to future per-minute charges on Net access.

According to these groups, the decision today may have undermined
federal regulators' legal justification for exempting ISPs, which
are also known as enhanced service providers, from paying traditional
long distance fees to the Baby Bells.

In a recent court decision, these critics note, a judge upheld the
exemption by noting that not all traffic flowing through an ISP's
server to a consumer went across state lines. But by now treating
the calls as interstate, this justification disappears, they warn.

"It's fair to say that no one at the FCC wants to remove the
enhanced service provider exemption," said Paul Misener, chief of
staff to Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth. "[The commission] is
exposing itself to the legal risk of having the enhanced service
provider exemption forcibly removed."

The Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America (CFA)
also warned today that the FCC's decision could wind up backfiring on
Net users down the road.

"We understand that [the FCC] doesn't want to give us usage charges
for the Internet," said Mark Cooper, telecommunications analyst for
the CFA. "But they're going to be hard-pressed not to slip down that
slope. Once you say the Internet is like interstate calling, how are
you going to stop from putting interstate charges on it?"

New confusion

Today's decision may open the door to a new round of litigation,
however, as companies settle down and read the fine print.

Bell companies and their opponents hailed the FCC's ruling as a
victory, even though the commission ruled that the companies must
still follow through on their current contracts with rivals, as
ordered by many states.

But several Bells said they plan to use the decision to try to undo
state decisions anyway.

"Bell Atlantic will immediately ask state commissions to correct
this situation and reconsider their decisions on so-called
'reciprocal compensation' because it's clear that these payments
apply only to local calls," said Tom Tauke, Bell Atlantic's senior
vice president for government relations.

It is possible that these new legal battles--or contract
renegotiations in the future--could wind up finding ISPs paying more
for their basic telephone access. This could be passed along to
users in the form of slightly higher fees, some observers said.

But the issue of users paying per-minute access fees is very
unlikely, even if today's decision did remove one prop holding up the
issue's legal foundation. Any such proposal would meet with bitter
opposition at the FCC and in Congress, observers said.

"The FCC understands that if they propose per-minute access charges,
they will get 30 million emails saying that's a bad idea," said
Chris Savage, a Washington telecommunications lawyer who has been
closely involved in the debate. "They don't want to do that."

Links:

http://www.fcc.gov/

http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,32789,00.html

http://www.bellatlantic.com/

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