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To: marginmike who wrote (29347)	5/6/1999 8:26:00 PM
From: JGoren	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

OT: Slight Tech question. The phone company seems to be bringing in new wires into my complex. They are covered in black rubber and seem to be about 1-1/2 inches in diameter, about twice the diameter of the current lines. There is a whole new set of the wires on the electric poles behind the units with black, oval transformer or booster looking things--usually about a two feet before each pole and after, including one on the line after the pole leading into the building. They are looped at the poles and the building, and the loop seems to be the end of the "wire", so it has to be fed into the building. The loop is located where the current phone wires enters the brick and goes down inside the wall to the phone box which is attached to the building on the outside wall. I am aware that Southwestern Bell recently laid fiber on the other side of the expressway, about a block away. Anyone have any ideas what is being installed? BTW, it's not coming in where the TCI cable wire and junction box are. Maybe my phone service and line is being upgraded so a 56K modem will actually work or maybe ADSL (?) or one of the other acronyms that will provide me with faster access to the net. Thanks in advance.

To: marginmike who wrote (29347)	5/6/1999 9:52:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 152472

Off topic - Cuban baseball players (in U.S.) merely overslept (!) (I overslept the first time I was supposed to take the GMAT (the business school standardized admission test), but I think these guys did something really memorable). May 6, 1999 Cubans Didn't Defect, But Overslept Filed at 8:22 p.m. EDT By The Associated Press HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Six retired players who missed a flight returning a Cuban baseball delegation from Baltimore said Thursday they overslept and never had any intention of defecting to the United States. They criticized the only member of the 300-plus delegation who did ask for asylum and said they had not been pressured into returning. ''They insisted that I stay in Washington and told me I wouldn't have any problems,'' Juan Vives claimed he was told by U.S. immigration officials. ''I told them I didn't have any problems in Cuba, either,'' he said. The six spoke to at a press conference in Havana. They arrived in Havana Thursday after missing their original Tuesday flight. The Cuban team beat the Baltimore Orioles 12-6 in a game which lasted late into Monday. Former catcher Evelio Hernandez said the six players actually came out ahead after they overslept and missed their flight. For one thing, he said, they got to see the White House. ''We came out winning because we got to tour Washington, but I am bothered by the speculation that circulated about us wanting to stay,'' he said. Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company