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Talk about speedy. Last month, a competition among physicists produced a 101 gigabit per second data transfer -- a rate that would enable downloads of three DVDs per second or the whole library of Congress in 15 minutes. Put another way, it's about 1.8 million times faster than your standard 56Kbps dial up and about 67,000 times faster than Verizon's $29.95 digital subscriber line (DSL) download speed -- one movie every 6 hours, if you please. Which is one reason that some Internet fans, rather than going, "Golly gee" might be excused for responding to the news with a grudging,...

According to 2000 income-tax returns, the Jackson Rainbow/Coalition netted more than $3 million from corporate giants Freddie Mac, Verizon and Citigroup. The late release by the Rev. Jesse Jackson of his group's 2000 tax returns provide tantalizing glimpses into his corporate fund raising. Among the previously unknown items is a payment of $1,050,000 to the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition from the Federal Home Mortgage Corp. (Freddie Mac) "to develop an infrastructure to support credit- and investment-outreach programs." Also included on the returns is $1,675,000 received from Verizon Communications Inc. and a $500,000 payment from the Citigroup Foundation, both of which have...