According to wire service reports, witnesses say a hospital in the capital collapsed and that many buildings Additional information from the island has been slow in coming, were damaged.

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Like the copper cable, it would be buried in the ground--but a strand the diameter of a human hair could carry thousands of times more information than the copper wire.

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Largely, in my opinion, because of SEC disclosure laws regarding the release of material information via press release and wire service.

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During the 1970s they squeezed a stream of digital information into a fiber optic wire the width of a human hair.

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